Gillibrand Promotes Legislation to Ease Veterans' Jobless Rate
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Visiting Buffalo on Friday, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand promoted a congressional bill that would help returning veterans find work and address the unwelcome statistic that one of every five soldiers, age 18 to 24, is without a job after returning home.
"When our troops are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, they are coming home to a country that is very different than the one they left," Gillibrand said at the downtown campus of Erie Community College, which currently enrolls some 600 veterans, according to college president Jack Quinn.See the full content of this document
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Gillibrand Promotes Legislation to Ease Veterans' Jobless Rate
"You have to recognize," Gillibrand said, "right now we have a national unemployment rate of 10 percent.
"The most startling fi...See the full content of this document
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