veterans

One of the most oft-cited benefits to military service is that it gives members training and skills that they can use in private life. But few companies seem eager to help veterans convert these disciplines to civilian employment. In fact, a stint in the military is often not a career salvation but...

Like the rest of Americans living in a time of great economic uncertainty, Timothy Bies is worried about his future. But Bies is at an even greater disadvantage than the rest of the country. Newly married and 20 years old, Bies is a combat arms soldier, training to deploy to Afghanistan. The job...

It's tough being unemployed, no doubt. But imagine serving your country and then coming home unemployed. Veterans coming back from Vietnam had great difficulties adapting to the workforce, and unfortunately little has changed since then. Add to that our sinking economy and you can imagine how hard...

Other than a one-time payment of $250 to disabled veterans and making it easier for employers to hire vets, the federal government's economic stimulus package won't give much immediate help to the estimated 24 million veterans in the United States. Most of the just under $4 billion for veterans in...

Even though these men and women are first and foremost legislators who shape the face of our legal system; many of us take for granted the "little" things they can do for us. I know up until a year ago I had only a faint notion of what my congressman did outside of legislating, but that all changed...