Author: Maurice Wilson

Results-driven visionary with 20 years experience driving dramatic results in the non-profit community-based organization social services sector. Consistently overcomes complex business challenges and makes high-stakes decisions within fast-paced, high-pressure environments using experience-backed judgment, innovation, strong work ethic, humor, and irreproachable integrity. Specialties: Communication, organizational development, planning, business development, collaboration, social networks, marketing, fundraising, fiscal management and implementation.

In the decade after World War II, 2 million veterans went to college on the new GI Bill, and almost all of them graduated and went on to power the post-war economic boom. This fall, tens of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans are enrolled in colleges and universities across the country, courtesy of

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Reams have been written about the advantages to veterans of continuing their educations. The Department of Labor reports that unemployment for college-educated veterans is about half that of those with only a high school degree. The Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests a much greater disparity, showing unemployment at about 30 percent for veterans under 24,

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When Ben Haberthur returned from Iraq in 2003, he found solace and recovery in 10-hour hikes along California’s coasts, often with fellow veterans. Now a restoration ecologist with the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Haberthur is determined to offer that same cathartic experience to Chicagoland’s veterans. “Two months after leaving Iraq, I was in

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I’d never have thought a humble pet columnist would be correcting the President of the United States. During the third presidential debate October 22, President Barack Obama maintained that his administration was “making sure that…our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury.”Ads

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Tennessee was one of nine states with a double-digit jobless rate for veterans last year. In response, state officials have scheduled more than a dozen job fairs on a single day.  Clarksville, Columbia, Cookeville and 10 other cities will host simultaneous hiring events. Labor Department spokesman Jeff Hentschel says companies have jobs to fill with

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If its directors can find a suitable location, a school to train disabled veterans in the art of watch repair could be coming to the area. The Veterans Watchmaker Initiative is currently operating from temporary headquarters at a fraternal lodge in Delaware, but Master Watchmaker Sam Cannan, chairman and co-founder of the nonprofit organization, is

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