It should make those 'free market capitalists' supporters wonder why employers, outside of the real small businesses, not the ones who call themselves that and aren't, need incentives to hire needed workers, while laying more burdens, for that bottom line, on those they maintain, not only the trained experienced veterans especially but even the civilian labor force. The new 'capitalism' was to be the engine of a constant profitable economic growth not needing any public funding. We all see where that con went, as forecast it would, as those profiting and supporting fight to maintain.
March 25, 2012 - Unemployment last year was 12 percent for men who served during Iraq and Afghanistan compared with 9.3 percent among civilian males, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report.
Women were even worse off with 36 percent of young female veterans jobless in 2011 compared with a 14.5 percent rate among young women 18 to 24, according to the report released last week.
But there have been some encouraging signs with unemployment rates among veterans trending down so far this year.
“We’re cautiously optimistic,” says Jim Borbely, an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Obama administration has a campaign that includes tax credits for employers, corporate hiring pledges, job fairs and new initiatives by the Pentagon and departments of Veterans Affairs and Labor to help ex-servicemembers prepare for and find work.
A survey of employers in January by the Society for Human Resource Management, the largest association of personnel officials with 260,000 members, also found positive signs with 64 percent of companies hiring veterans in the previous 36 months, up from 53 percent in 2010.
Still, there were 154,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans out of work last month. read more>>>
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