WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced legislation to restore cuts made to education aid for veterans going to college. The Post 9/11 GI Bill Payment Restoration Act (H.R. 1451) would reinstate living expense stipends during school breaks. “Our service members earned and deserve their educational benefits,” said Davis, a member of the House Education and
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If you’ve served in the military but have dreams of one day earning your college degree, we’ve gathered some admissions intel that may prove helpful to you. As part of our continuing coverage of the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling this week in Denver, we sat in on a session
Bureau of Labor Statistics officials estimate the September unemployment rate for that group at 9.7 percent, more than one percent less than the August rate. For 2012, the monthly average unemployment rate sits at 9.8 percent for those veterans, well below the 12.1 percent rate of 2011 and on pace for the lowest mark since
U.S. Army veteran Curtis Duncan will do anything for a job. Drive a truck. Operate a forklift. Work security. “Would you like me to come dig a ditch for you?” Duncan asked business recruiters at a veterans’ job fair Thursday. “Maybe fish your keys out of your car?” The 53-year-old Plant City veteran has been
There were no mentions of America’s veterans during Wednesday night’s presidential debate, a point that frustrates former US troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It was seriously disappointing,” says Tom Tarantino, a former US Army captain and chief policy director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). “This was the debate that
How times have changed. Forty years ago, many of our veterans returned home from military service during the Vietnam War era to an almost indifferent community. One day they are fighting for their lives and the lives of their fellow warriors; the next, they were back home among friends and relatives fighting a quieter (but
It’s not just suicide. It’s also drug overdose, car crashes, quasi- or secret-suicide carried out in fearful isolation. Young Iraq and Afghanistan vets are dying in increasing numbers by their own hands in “a largely unseen pattern of early deaths that federal authorities are failing to adequately track and have been slow to respond to,”
President Barack Obama has appealed to veterans and military families in defense-focused southeast Virginia, casting himself as a president who is ending foreign entanglements and aiding returning soldiers with educational opportunities. Obama chided rival Mitt Romney for saying, in secretly taped remarks months ago, that nearly half of Americans believe they are victims entitled to
The Disabled Veterans National Foundation, a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom, is asking the 112th Congress to remember Veterans as they look to finish their legislative business before they adjourn until after the November
Men and women serve our country in the military, but when they finish their duty and return home, finding a job is often difficult. Especially in this economy. All the efforts to help veterans find work might make some wonder: How many unemployed veterans are there in New Jersey? The number is big — 22,000.