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A study by Abt Associates Inc. and reported by the Associated Press analyzed veterans who had recently returned within 1-3 years from their war time deployments. The study found a shocking 18 percent of veterans unemployed and one out of four who found jobs make less than $21,840 a year.
Why is this happening?
The study said:
Employers often had misplaced stereotypes about veterans’ fitness for employment, such as concerns they did not have adequate technological skills, or were too rigid, lacked education or were at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder.
What did the VA have to say about this claim?
A VA spokesman declined to comment, saying the report spoke for itself.
And what did the actual soldiers have to say?
A Labor Department report obtained by the AP showed that formal job complaints by reservists remained high, citing concerns about denied jobs or benefits after their tried to return to their old jobs after extended tours in Iraq. Reservists filed 1,357 complaints with the department in 2006, the latest figures available, down from nearly 1,600 in 2005, when complaints reached the highest level since 1991.
So the study says there’s hiring discrimination from employers. (Big suprise?) The soldiers are still filing complaints about the way they’re treated as veterans. And the VA says it’s all just B.S.
Just to put that 18 percent veteran unemployment rate into perspective, I’d like to note the current national unemployment rate as reported from the U.S. Department of Labor is 4.9 percent. Something’s a little fishy here.
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