Obama unveils new plans to help veterans get jobs
November 8th, 2011 - 4:00 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has announced new initiatives to get veterans back to work.
More than 850,000 American veterans remain unemployed, Obama said Monday at the White House.
The new initiatives — titled “Veteran Gold Card”, “My Next Move for Veterans” and “Creating a Veterans Job Bank” — are mostly aimed at helping unemployed veterans in their job searching efforts, including better access to job-hunting services.
“We’re here today to try to take some steps to better serve today’s veterans in a rough economy,” Xinhua quoted Obama as saying.
“Even though the overall unemployment rate ticked down last month, unemployment among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan continue to rise,” he said.
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