9 November 2012
VETERANS: With unemployment rates high among veterans, the two parties are struggling to conciliate and find a solution.
By Kayla Chang, Copy Editor
Back in September, Senate Republicans used a procedural vote to effectively kill the Veterans Jobs Corp Act, which would have created new job-training programs to assist potentially 20,000 unemployed veterans. Republican Senator Tom Coburn led the gallant attack against this bill that would help veterans apply their military training to earn civilian occupational licenses and find work, presumably to make a bigger point about honor and sacrifice than the veterans did. Makes sense.
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