By:Doug DeDecker St. James Plaindealer —The first phase of a significant local and state wide effort to assist in the hiring of veterans culminated in a dinner attended by approximately 100 people that was held last Thursday night at the St. James National Guard Armory. The initiative is the first of three phases in [...]
By msnbc.com staff It has become a mainstream story – a soldier is unable to find work because of military obligations. Many of those stories are about small, private companies. But according to The Washington Post, the biggest offender is the federal government. The story, titled, “Returning military members allege job discrimination — by federal [...]
By Elaine Sanchez: American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 – Alongside some of the nation’s top officials, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will unveil an employment report this week intended to ease military spouses’ ongoing issues with occupational licenses, White House officials announced [...]
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. American Forces Press Service: WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2012 – High school students got an inside look at Defense Department information technology jobs during a Pentagon event that showcased the wide variety of opportunities in the field. Seeking to hire the best and brightest talent, the Defense [...]
By msnbc.com news services The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low, offering a hopeful sign for hiring in the year ahead. Employers added a net 243,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday – that’s the most since [...]
By Karen Parrish (American Forces Press Service) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2012 – A Department of Veterans Affairs job fair set for Jan. 18 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center here offers mid-Atlantic veterans an unusual opportunity, a senior Defense Department official said today. “It’s a job fair for veterans, and we’re obviously encouraging all veterans [...]
By Michael Thornton Just prior to Veterans Day, Congress appeared to actually find the will to act responsibly and with bipartisan support overwhelmingly passed a veteran’s jobs bill. President Obama applied his signature and the legislation is now law. While the feckless media touted this legislation as indication that both sides of the political [...]
By Lucy Madison President Obama on Monday signed a bill aimed at getting unemployed veterans back to work, marking a rare moment of bipartisanship among Washington lawmakers this year, and signifying the president’s first achievement in pushing individual initiatives of his American Jobs Act through Congress piecemeal after its failure to pass earlier in the [...]
By Rosalind S. Helderman President Obama will get a chance to sign into law a portion of his $447 billion jobs plan after the House agreed Wednesday to extend tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed veterans and to repeal a tax provision seen as a potential burden to government contractors. This is the first [...]
By Nina Shapiro This week, the U.S. House will vote on a jobs bill for veterans. Want to know why it’s necessary? Read this week’s feature storyabout the apparent suicide of Jared Hagemann, who was unable to find a job outside the military. You could also ask Owen McCurty. McCurty, a veteran himself, now works at Joint Base [...]
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