A story from The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21541835
[size=14pt]American veterans[/size]
A hard homecoming
Budget battles and a stagnant economy greet America’s soldiers as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan
Around 800,000 veterans are jobless, 1.4m live below the poverty line, and one in every three homeless adult men in America is a veteran. Though the overall unemployment rate among America’s 21m veterans in November (7.4%) was lower than the national rate (8.6%), for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan it was 11.1%. And for veterans between the ages of 18 and 24, it was a staggering 37.9%, up from 30.4% just a month earlier.
http://www.economist.com/node/21541835
[size=14pt]American veterans[/size]
A hard homecoming
Budget battles and a stagnant economy greet America’s soldiers as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan
Around 800,000 veterans are jobless, 1.4m live below the poverty line, and one in every three homeless adult men in America is a veteran. Though the overall unemployment rate among America’s 21m veterans in November (7.4%) was lower than the national rate (8.6%), for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan it was 11.1%. And for veterans between the ages of 18 and 24, it was a staggering 37.9%, up from 30.4% just a month earlier.
