Backlash builds as for-profit schools rake in GI Bill funds

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vets-colleges-20120716,0,2523844.story



WASHINGTON — After Moses Maddox left the Marine Corps in 2006, he took a sales job with the for-profit University of Phoenix, making up to 100 calls a day to persuade veterans to enroll using their GI Bill benefits.

Only after he enrolled himself did the former corporal discover that the state university he wanted to attend didn't accept the nine course credits he'd earned at Phoenix.

"Basically, I wasted my GI Bill benefits — just like a lot of other veterans I talk to," said Maddox, who until recently was a veterans benefits counselor at Palomar College in San Diego County.

Phoenix, a giant among for-profit colleges, says it's responding to the needs of the veteran workforce, offering practical training and skills.

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1. Which they could get from the hundreds of Junior colleges here in the US...

They can take the remedial classes that gets them ready for regular college from pocket money and save the benefit for when they get to the traditional college.

I have a friend who went through the Phoenix program and is having a really hard tie finding the job she was expecting.

GI Bill, as well.

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2. Fleeced in homeownership. Fleeced in education. Fleeced in retirment.

70 percent of the American economy is usury.

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