Upon separating from active duty in the USMC in December 1989 to attend the University of South Carolina as a full-time student, I was introduced to veterans' homelessness through VA's Student Work Study Program where I worked twenty hours a week on behalf of homeless veterans to help them secure food, travel, shelter and life's basic needs.

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Today we can say something we could not say six years ago: with more affordable student loans, more Pell grants and work-study jobs, education IRAs, a lifetime learning tax credit for junior and senior year of college, and the new HOPE scholarship tax cut that more than 5 million Americans will receive this year, we have opened the doors of college to all.

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