AHA Executive Director and Teaching Division Vice President Encourage a “GI Bill” for Essential Workers (November 2020)

On Veterans Day, in an article in the Washington Post’s Made By History section, AHA executive director Jim Grossman and AHA Teaching Division vice president Laura McEnaney (Whittier Coll.) encouraged lawmakers to support the equivalent of a “GI Bill” for front-line COVID-19 workers. “To express national gratitude,” they wrote, “requires rewarding national service as part of the social contract in exchange for sacrifice.”