Predatory For-Profit Colleges Are Sucking Up A Disproportionate Amount Of Aid For Military Veterans: As ThinkProgress has documented, predatory for-profit colleges survive mainly due to the federal government, which provides about 90 percent of many schools’ revenue through the various streams of federal aid used by their students. Those students are also much more likely to default on their loans; students who attended for-profit colleges account for nearly 50 [...]/p