Ethan Ris is an associate professor of higher education leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The GI Bill sits near the top of the list of government policies that helped make America great in the mid-20th century. The 1944 law’s generous provisions for returning World War II veterans, and especially its grants of free college tuition, paved the way for the creation of a huge new middle class of productive, educated citizens.

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