{"id":2258,"date":"2008-02-11T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/11\/dispatches-from-the-class-war\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T07:40:07","slug":"dispatches-from-the-class-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/11\/dispatches-from-the-class-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from the Class War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2008\/02\/10\/gi_bill_falling_short_of_college_tuition_costs\/\">the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding<\/a>. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering steam in Washington to boost the payout of the GI Bill, to provide a true war-time benefit for war- time service. But the effort has run headlong into another reality of an unpopular war: the struggle to sustain an all-volunteer force.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon and White House have so far resisted a new GI Bill out of fear that too many will use it &#8211; choosing to shed the uniform in favor of school and civilian life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incentive to serve and leave,&#8221; said Robert Clarke, assistant director of accessions policy at the Department of Defense, may &#8220;outweigh the incentive to have them stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we can&#8217;t have that. How dare they think of trying to better themselves through education, rather than slogging along forever as members of the underclass, dodging bullets for their betters. It&#8217;s not like we recruit soldiers by promising that military service will give them useful skills and money for college, or anything like that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist: Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering steam in Washington to boost the payout of the GI Bill, to provide a true&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/11\/dispatches-from-the-class-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dispatches from the Class War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49,47,13,28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-class_issues","category-economics","category-education","category-politics","category-war","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}