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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Fri Jul 6, 2012, 01:47 PM Jul 2012

Editorial: Want to honor veterans? Help them find good jobs

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/13574106-474/editorial-want-to-honor-veterans-help-them-find-good-jobs.html

Editorial: Want to honor veterans? Help them find good jobs

EDITORIALS July 4, 2012 5:58PM

Waving a flag and putting out bunting in red, white and blue is a fine way to celebrate a week highlighted by Wednesday’s celebration of the Fourth of July.

But you can do more. Help a military veteran find a job.

In May, the unemployment rate was 23.5 percent for veterans 18 to 24 — 10 percent higher than for civilians of the same age. The rate for all veterans who have served in the last decade was 12.7 percent in May, compared with an overall national rate of 8.7 percent, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

You’d think a nation’s gratitude for those who have served in two long wars would make it easy for veterans to find jobs. But it’s not that simple.

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Editorial: Want to honor veterans? Help them find good jobs (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jul 2012 OP

Or even better Dokkie Jul 2012 #1

The American Business Elite Sent Their Jobs To China And India TheMastersNemesis Jul 2012 #2

Dokkie

(1,688 posts)

1. Or even better

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 01:49 PM

Jul 2012

stop creating new ones.

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)

2. The American Business Elite Sent Their Jobs To China And India

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Fri Jul 6, 2012, 03:24 PM

Jul 2012

While veterans supposedly protect our freedoms all they are protecting the the multinational corporations' right to send the jobs they might get overseas to China, India or some other cheap cheap labor country. After it is just doing business. Romney will complete what Bush did not.

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