Officials see the struggles but can't explain why the state has one of the highest jobless rates in the country for vets since 2001.September 21, 2011 - After combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with hundreds of men under his command, Army Capt. Andrew McLean longed to return to his native Minnesota, bolstered by job prospects in a state where unemployment was well below the national average.
Little did he know he was part of a daunting subset in the state's job market: More than one in five modern-day veterans cannot find work. At almost 23 percent, Minnesota's unemployment rate for veterans who have served after the Sept. 11 attacks is the country's third-highest. Only Michigan and Indiana are worse. The state's rate is nearly twice the national average of 11.5 percent and more than three times the state's overall unemployment rate.
"You run into sergeant majors and lieutenant colonels who did 26 years in the military and have college educations, but yet you see them at a job fair looking for work," said Jeff Holmstrom, a 33-year-old staff sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard who spent months job hunting after returning more than a year ago from his second deployment. He had volunteered for that tour in Kuwait because he couldn't find work. "That's how bad it is out there."
President Obama has made putting veterans to work a cornerstone of his recently announced jobs plan. Obama has proposed tax credits of up to $4,800 for employers who hire vets and up to $9,600 for hiring a wounded vet. read more>>>
As those war profiteers who ordered are still profiteering and not only on books, their wealthy class does as well, directly or indirectly, and none are taxed to boot!
No Sacrifice now a decade plus long added to the previous decades!!
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