PhotoDespite efforts by Congress, the Obama administration and state attorneys general to stop the predatory practices of for-profit colleges, veterans and service members who rely on funding from the G.I. State attorneys general and federal agencies at the time were investigating seven for-profit outfits with significant revenue streams from the G.I. Nevertheless, a new analysis of federal data by Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit that provides free legal services to student veterans, finds that the for-profit industry is still setting its sights on veterans and service members even as its nonmilitary enrollment has declined. This has made veterans and service members a special target for high-pressure recruitment tactics and deliberate fraud. The new report also shows that the schools that rely almost entirely on federal revenue — when veteran and Defense Department money is counted — are leaning more and more on veterans and service members.

Source: New York Times November 24, 2017 23:48 UTC