House Committee Addresses Veterans' Unemployment

The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs met today to address the high rate of unemployment among U.S. veterans, according to a press release from the committee.

Florida representative Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, announced plans to introduce legislation in June to help improve veterans' employment.

The unemployment rate for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is more than 2 percentage points higher than that of the general population, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, and the House committee reported a rate as high as 13.1 percent. The committee met to discuss the effectiveness of existing job training programs for veterans and heard testimony from witnesses on ways to help veterans in their job search.

"We have programs to help veterans find jobs spread out across numerous agencies, but due to the increasing number of veterans who are currently unemployed, we must ask ourselves, are these programs working?" said Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana.

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