One in three young vets now unemployed

[unhappycamper]

One in three young vets now unemployed
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Apr 2, 2010 15:12:51 EDT

Disturbing new statistics from the Labor Department show that one in three veterans under age 24 is unemployed — and that the unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has jumped to 14.7 percent, half again as high as the national employment rate of 9.7 percent.

The March unemployment rate of 30.2 percent for veterans aged 18 to 24 is a big jump from February’s figure of 21.7 percent, although it may be partly the result of a small sample used by the Labor Department in determining unemployment, said Justin Brown, a labor expert for Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Still, Brown said, the data on veterans employment are still headed in the wrong direction.

The unemployment rate for veterans of all ages was 9.8 percent in March, nearly identical to the national rate. Brown said that marks a decline for veterans, who for the last two years were more likely to be employed that nonveterans.

But Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ unemployment rate was 14.7 percent in March, compared with 10.7 percent a year ago.


Rest of article at; http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/04/military_veterans_unemployment_040210w/

[Lost4words]

1. this govt does not get it. People need a way to earn a GD living!

wall street doing well means nothing on main street.

[Bigmack]

2. Serves them right! Those guys....

were supposed to stay in and keep fighting for the Empire.

Goddam wimps want to get out, get a normal job, a normal family, and heal themselves.

Lock and load, guys.... go get them Talibaners!

(Deep, dark, unemployed Vet :sarcasm: intended)

[Pharlo]

3. Makes one wonder - to what extent is that the fault of the US

govt and extended/repeated tours? Companies look at 'vetrans' and find a legal way to disqualify them (not qualified, found a better candidate, etc) for the simple reason companies don't want to spend the resources to train an individual the US govt is, most likely, going to 'call up' in six months or a year.

As long as the US govt keeps pulling the 'reactivation' card on vetrans, vetrans are going to continue having a high unemployment rate.

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. Sooooooo.......

their unemployment rate is now approaching that of the general population?



Sorry. NONE of the frickin employment stats put forth by the government are the least bit accurate or reliable.

[90-percent]

5. Support Our Troops

Take a business risk and hire former servicemen broken by our government. After all, you could end up with one that's still good!

-90% Jimmy

:sarcasm:

[InkAddict]

6. This will only get worse for all age-bracketed veterans n/t

Subjectively, vets can be recalled, destablizing the corporate mission; new vets returning from the toxic fields of Iraq and Afghanistan may be mentally/physically ill, perhaps requiring excessive "time off," also destablizing the corporate mission. Vets are great at following orders, but are they flexible thinkers that will produce "profit" for the corporations? Also, those corps that find vets useful to their mission also profit from war, therefore, by some weird logic, the vets applying for civilian work no longer wanted to participate in their places as cannon fodder in the war-profit missions of the corporations that could make use of their "skills," those Traitors. Hey, they got great jobs for vets at Xe (Blackwater).

Of course, I'm generalizing and shouldn't need the sarcasm button here, but it's been my experience that civilian employment managers are only interested in the most benign, non-thinking persons who can be easily controlled and really enjoy being beat up in the corporate Dilbert games. American management especially loves the low-cost foreign slave shops that send us those toxic products and screwed up technological masterpiece's of automated phone messaging and customer non-services.

[Arctic Dave]

7. Makes sense. Joining the military in the first place for a job seems to be

a main factor for people enlisting.

I've mentioned this before that you are better off joining a trade school then enlisting. There are very few things in the military that will land you a job in the civilian world.

[BlueIris]

8. My heart re-breaks for the troops daily. nt