• markr@lemmy.world
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    Except of course there were student loans. "Federal student loans were first offered in 1958 " - wiki. And before that the baby boom generation’s parents had the GI Bill to get them through college.

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      White people specifically had access to the GI bill benefits. Black vets were excluded for a long time.