Make Gainful Employment Data Available to All
As Veterans, we are trained to rely on intelligence before making significant decisions. Data is a necessary advantage, and the more data the better. Thankfully, over the last decade, significant…
Veterans Are Not Getting the full Picture: VA and ED Need to Share Data
We are committed to data-driven policies that advance the interests of Student Veterans and help them to make the right educational decisions. The GI Bill Calculator is a useful tool…
Dedicated Pathways For Student Veterans
If you are a student Veteran then you probably look back on your time in service and wonder what all those hours of training added up to. You could argue…
Additional Protections for Service Members in Academia
Reserve and National Guard members could soon use Department of Defense (DOD) or Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits to withdraw or take a leave of absence from their academic program when…
Independent Student Status For Reservists
Thanks to the Post-9/11 GI Bill, many members of our military have had the doors of higher education opened to them. This has helped our Veterans climb social and economic…
Full G.I. Bill Benefits for the National Guard
Yesterday, our nation celebrated the National Guard's 385 years of service to the American people. Despite being older than the Constitution itself, this service branch does not always receive the…
Full BAH Benefits for Student Veterans in Online Programs
The proliferation of online learning has provided a tremendous advance in educational opportunities for Student Veterans. Due to the competing responsibilities of careers and family, online classes provide the flexibility…
Policymakers Want to Make it Harder for Veterans to Succeed
Congressman Bobby Scott, a Democrat representing Virginia's 3rd Congressional District recognizes, as others do, that there is an impending skilled labor shortage that will affect the entire workforce. Unfortunately, those…
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program came into being on October 1st, 2007. The federal Department of Education (ED) operated this program with the ambition of encouraging significantly more…
Policymakers Are Trying to Restrict Veteran Benefits
One of the biggest reasons many enlist in the Military and serve our country is for the benefits they’re promised. Education, housing, health insurance, etc. To take away or restrict…