Employment Hiring our Heroes president: Military spouse employment is ‘critical to national security’ How many service members have talked about leaving the military because their spouse can’t find a job? According to a recent Hiring Our Heroes survey, that number is surprisingly high.
Employment A new home away from home for wounded warriors and their families The Warrior Retreat at Bull Run opened a second home on its 37-acre countryside campus this week, hoping to boost its capacity to host more than 500 service members, families and caregivers each year.
Education Some schools punish GI Bill users for VA’s delays. Congress may be about to stop that. If it does, that’ll mean the end to any late fees or other punishments school sometimes impose on veterans whose GI Bill payments don’t come in on time — as long as those schools want to keep enrolling students using the education benefit.
Transition Stolen valor meets fake news: Facebook trolls targeting vets Army veteran Kristofer Goldsmith embarked on a 15-month cyber investigation into social media trolls targeting the military community from Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Philippines and more than two-dozen other countries.
Employment Vet employment market stays hot in November For six months now, veterans have been employed at higher rates than nonveterans, federal labor statistics show.
Education Here’s the VA’s long, slow fix to the GI Bill cash crunch After leaving thousands of student vets in the lurch, the VA now has a plan to resolve the problem -- by 2020.
Transition More veterans are becoming obese. Are stressful military transitions to blame? The percentage of veterans who are overweight in 2018 is nearly seven times larger than the percentage of those who are not, according to the results of a new Wounded Warrior Project survey.
Transition Vets aren’t eating their veggies, study says When given the choice between a carrot stick or a bag of chips, veterans are more likely to grab for the unhealthy snack, a new study shows.
Employment Is your company ‘Best for Vets’? Last year, 100 companies across more than 30 industries made the list.
Education Congress blasts VA on GI Bill: ‘You can’t simply change the law’ Lawmakers at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday questioned whether the Veterans Affairs Department has the authority to change a major deadline for implementing a portion of the Forever GI Bill — and seemingly act as if the original one, mandated by law, never existed.
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