The Promise America Kept, And Broke - June 22, 1944

from The Daily History Chronicle · host Richard G Backus

YouTube Description: On June 22, 1944, just weeks after D-Day, President Roosevelt signed the GI Bill into law. Historians credit it with building the postwar middle class. But the full story is more complicated than the version most of us learned. This episode explores what the bill did, what its structure made impossible, and why the consequences are still visible in the economic data today.

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