{"id":80482,"date":"2018-07-10T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80482"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:42:21","slug":"labor-department-awards-47-million-in-grants-to-employ-homeless-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80482","title":{"rendered":"Labor Department awards $47 million in grants to employ homeless veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Labor send us their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/vets\/vets20180710\">press release<\/a> announcing an award of $47,600,000 in grants to help employ homeless veterans;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While serving in the military, veterans learn many skills desired in today&#8217;s workforce,&#8221; said [U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander] Acosta. &#8220;These grants will help thousands of homeless veterans reintegrate themselves into society and secure good jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funds are being awarded on a competitive basis to state and local workforce investment boards; local public agencies and nonprofit organizations; tribal governments; and faith-based and community organizations. Homeless veterans may receive occupational skills training, apprenticeship opportunities, and on-the-job training, as well as job search and placement assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/vets\/newsletter\/\">unemployment rate for veterans<\/a> in June was 3.3%. I figure that I should mention it, since the media has been reasonably silent on the issue recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Labor send us their press release announcing an award of $47,600,000 in grants &hellip; <a title=\"Labor Department awards $47 million in grants to employ homeless veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80482\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labor Department awards $47 million in grants to employ homeless veterans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}