Nevertheless, the design of the GI Bill was such that all of these goals were able to go hand-in-hand without conflict or compromise. PR and public statements surrounding the GI Bill, however, emphasised these altruistic goals above the macroeconomic ones in a bid to muster support. Altruistic goals of rewarding the patriotic service and sacrifice of veterans, and also of implementing national social care schemes, were always secondary objectives for FDR's government. The underlying primary goal of the GI Bill was macroeconomic - to prevent widespread unemployment and economic depression by successfully reintegrating returning servicemen and women into civilian society. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the GI Bill, was signed into law by FDR on 22 June 1944 (just days after the Allied invasion of Normandy began) and officially expired on 25 July 1956.
The bill has been heralded as one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever enacted by the US government, impacting the nation socially, economically and politically. In fact, the bill went far beyond this remit, inadvertently generating a huge economic boost. The GI Bill, introduced by the US federal government in 1944, offered an unprecedented range of benefits to returning veterans - including unemployment benefits and assistance in finding employment funded tuition for college and training loans for homes, businesses and farms and treatment at specialist hospitals - all in an effort to reintegrate veterans into the labour market as smoothly as possible. Memories of the widespread unemployment and economic depression caused by veterans returning following the first world war still lingered, along with the struggles of the Great Depression. With the second world war still being fought in Europe and the Pacific, domestic policy in the United States turned to the economic impact of millions of veterans simultaneously returning to civilian life when the war eventually ended.
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