Veterans Disability Lawyer
Unemployment for post-9/11
veterans continues to be at high levels.
The recent numbers confirm what
many military unemployment specialists have suspected: unemployment rates for
younger vets continues to outpace the numbers for unemployed civilians. Almost
one in 10 returned members from Iraq
and Afghanistan
"Vets are returning with
marketable skills, yet they continue to have trouble finding employment,"
commented Tampa
The number of post-9/11 vets who
are unemployed is 203,000 as of February of this year. This time last year,
that number was 154,000. There is a growing concern that the federal budgets
cuts as part of the 2013 sequestration may spike those unemployment numbers
even higher.
According to the founder and CEO
of the nonprofit organization Iraq
One free employment tool
available to vets is VetNet, as part of
a joint effort by Google and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. VetNet is an employment database as part of the "Hiring
Our Heroes" program; an outreach offering job fairs, career services and
community. Now in its second year, Hiring Our Heroes has so
far held more than 370 hiring fairs and has found employment for 14,100 vets
and military spouses.
The media company Comcast announced in March that it along with NBCUniversal met their goal of hiring 1,000 vets, and has now pledged to "Hire our Heroes" to employ 1,000 more vets by 2015. The vets working for Comcast and NBCUniversal are employed in technology, operations, network engineering, programming, theme parks, marketing, customer service, and human resources.
Sources
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/08/17237011-unemployment-among-post-911-veterans-still-running-heavy?lite
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