Bureau of Labor Statistics

August Unemployment Data for Veterans

As with the first Friday of every month, the BLS employment statistics were released today. National unemployment remained virtually unchanged, from 6.2% to 6.1% while the Veteran unemployment numbers went from 6.0% to 5.6%. BLS Employment Data – August 2014.pdf Thanks to all of you who are working directly or indirectly, to ensure our Veterans […]

US Department of Labor

Joint VA/Labor Department program to retrain vets

Online site now opened for veterans to apply for education benefits WASHINGTON– Unemployed veterans between the ages of 35 and 60 can now apply for new benefits to cover education costs for up to one year through a joint U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Labor program that focuses on retraining 99,000 […]

President Barack Obama signs the Veterans Opportunity to Work to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 (VOW to Hire Heroes Act), that will provide tax credits to help put veterans back to work. First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden attend the ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, Nov. 21, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Employers VOW to Hire Heroes

In an effort to reduce Veteran unemployment, the President signed into law the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 last November.  Included in this new law are the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), Special Employer Incentive (SEI), and Veteran Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP).

StartWire

StartWire Helps Unemployed Claim Benefits

Lebanon, NH (May 9, 2012) – StartWire™, a game-changing Internet job search organizer, today launched a first-of-its-kind application for unemployed job seekers – the StartWire Unemployment Work Search Organizer. With all 50 states requiring unemployed benefit claimants to track their work search on a weekly basis, the StartWire Unemployment Work Search Organizer automates the often-manual […]

Veterans American Dream

ViSalus and American Dream to Teach and Inspire Veterans

ViSalus, the number one challenge marketing company with its Body by Vi™ 90-Day Challenge, has partnered with Fascination Entertainment Corporation to help veterans and their spouses bolster economic security through entrepreneurship opportunities. Fascination Entertainment’s “American Dream with Kristin Best” airs weekly on the Armed Forces Network (AFN) and tells the inspiring true stories of men […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Chamber to Launch Military Spouse Business Alliance

Program Will Address 26% Military Spouse Unemployment Rate and Career Advancement Issues WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes, with partners, will host the Military Spouse Career Forum, the largest-ever hiring fair exclusively for military and veteran spouses, at the Washington Convention Center.  More than 1,000 spouses and 100 Washington-area and national employers are expected to […]

A construction worker directs a steel hoist at the foundation of a new condo complex in Sunrise, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Unemployment rate falls, lowest in nearly 3 years

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A burst of hiring in December pushed the U.S. unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011. The Labor Department said Friday that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since February 2009. The rate has […]