{"id":23770,"date":"2011-06-07T08:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23770"},"modified":"2011-06-07T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:46:04","slug":"hiring-heroes-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23770","title":{"rendered":"Hiring Heroes Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just A Grunt<\/a> sends us a link to an Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a> article about the new Hiring Heroes Act now winding it’s way through Congress;<\/p>\n

Robinson is one of thousands of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan struggling to find work, the reason U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., introduced the Hiring Heroes Act last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cBottom line, we\u2019ve got too many homeless vets and a high percentage of veterans who are unemployed or unemployable,\u201d Bishop said.<\/p>\n

The legislation will provide all veterans leaving service with individualized career assessment, matching up military personnel skills with civilian occupations, as part of the Defense Department\u2019s transition assistance program.<\/p>\n

The bill will make available an additional two years of vocational rehabilitation — restoring injured or disabled vets to the level of work or skills they had prior to being hurt — and employment services once federal and state financial assistance has been exhausted. The bill will also create a program giving vets paid work experience with civilian employers and contractors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> says that Gulf War II veterans unemployment was 11.4% in 2010 – higher than the national unemployment rate which is 9.1%. The article says it’s higher this year;<\/p>\n

The legislation comes at a time when the employment rate for returning service members ages 20 to 24 stands at 27 percent, according to the U.S. Labor Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, a lot of the reason for this disparity is that veterans have to overcome the Hollywood stereotype of veterans on the verge of a violent breakdown. I’ve dealt with that in my own workplace. Some of my workmates have no problem telling me to my face that all veterans are crazy.<\/p>\n

From the Chicago Sun Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

In decades past, there were greater numbers of veterans in the civilian workplace, including in hiring positions, who understood military language, life and the skills gained there, said Tom Tarantino, senior legislative associate with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. But today, with an all-volunteer military and a smaller percentage of Americans in the workplace that have served in the Armed Forces, that understanding often isn\u2019t there, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds like something Paul Reickhoff and his IAVA should get involved in if he can stop perpetuating the myths that come out of Hollywood for a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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