Are You Financially Better Off than Your Parents?

tl;dr: Wenders is single and loaded?

 

I agree about the GI Bill. My Dad graduated from high school and was bouncing around working jobs in Chicago. His parents did not believe in college. My Dad got drafted during the Korean War. Like many other draftees of that war he suffered from the harsh winters and feelings of isolation (He was stationed in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and never saw any combat but he said the winters were hell). When he returned to Chicago he got a degree and was able to marry, have two kids and but a three bedroom house within three years.

My mother used to say she had no idea what my Dad would have wound up doing without the GI Bill.