ABSTRACT
The proliferation of for-profit colleges has shaped the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Charles A. Eckert, legislative attorney for the General Accounting Office (GAO), told the House Veterans Committee in February 1952 that two-thirds of those schools investigated by the GAO had "overcharged the government" under the GI Bill. Eckert strongly recommended that a revamped GI Bill for the Korean War should not make direct payments to the schools but rather provide allowances to veterans out of whom they would pay tuition, fees, and expenses. The prime mover behind what became the Vietnam War GI Bill was Senator Ralph Yarborough, a Texas liberal who in 1959 proposed a Cold War Veterans Readjustment Bill that would pick up where the Korean War GI Bill, which had expired in January 1955, left off. Like the Korean War GI Bill, the Cold War GI Bill provided a maximum of thirty-six months of education benefits.
