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...veteran population), for the country's newest, youngest and sometimes battle-scarred former service members, finding jobs post-service is proving to be frustrating. Of the 332,000 veterans between age 20 and 24, the unemployment rate was 10.4% in 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (it's 8% among non-veterans of the same age group). Young vets say the military's job-placement programs are well-meaning but often ineffective. They say they don't know how to convey the benefits of their military experience to civilian employers...
...available to vets can be more confusing and overwhelming than helpful. The Servicemembers' Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the Montgomery G.I. Bill, provides for education and retraining; Congress is currently considering a "post-9/11" version of the bill with even greater benefits. The departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs jointly launched the Transition Assistance Program in 1989, and each branch of the military has since then added its own workshops. States help, too, with internship programs for wounded vets or assistance in launching businesses. Then there are the corporations - Home Depot, Union Pacific, Starbucks, Raytheon, Dunkin...
...audit is expected to be completed this upcoming week, according to Hausammann’s letter to the Student Action Labor Movement...
...reverting to a nasty old habit that rendered it largely superfluous during large swaths of the last decade: dabbling in political issues, on which its voice is irrelevant and unrepresentative.The most recent alarming case of the UC’s meddling was its legislation on the security guard labor dispute. On April 30, the UC passed the Stand for Security Act, in which it endorsed the Stand for Security Coalition’s campaign to improve the livelihoods of the security guards, who are currently in union negotiations with their employer, AlliedBarton. Then last week, seven UC members, acting under...
...audit is expected to be completed this upcoming week, according to Hausammann's letter to the Student Action Labor Movement...