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White House Office Hours: Joining Forces
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 4:05 PM EDTJoining Forces Executive Director Brad Cooper will host a session of White House Office Hours on Tuesday, May 29th at 2 p.m. EDT.
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A Big Week for Joining Forces
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 12:48 PM EDTCompanies across the country make new commitments to join forces and hire thousands of veterans.
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White House Office Hours: Joining Forces
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM EDTJoining Forces Executive Director Brad Cooper will host a session of White House Office Hours on Tuesday, May 29th at 2pm ET.
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Photo Gallery: Thirteen Presidents Mark Memorial Day
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM EDTExplore a selection of Memorial Day photos and speeches from the holdings of the Presidential Libraries of the U.S. National Archives.
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A Big Week for Joining Forces
Posted by on May 25, 2012 at 12:20 PM EDTCompanies across the country make new commitments to join forces and hire thousands of veterans.
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A Veterans Path
Posted by on May 24, 2012 at 11:30 AM EDTA soldiers path in life when returning home is not always clear cut and obvious. Cassaundra learned this the hard way when she completed her service as she began going to college full-time, working full-time, and raising two children. She now serves veterans by reaching out to mentor women leaving the armed forces with her organization F7 group.
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Smoothing the Transition
Posted by on May 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM EDTA soldiers life is never easy, and with a jobless rate of 12 percent among all veterans it can be even harder at home than war. Hernán Luis y Prado works to lessen the burden of unemployment for veterans through his "Workshops for Warriors" program. With 11 veteran working for him currently, Hernán hopes that by 2015 he'll employ 50 veterans and have secured jobs for 1000 more.
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Helping Veterans and Businesses Succeed Together
Posted by on May 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM EDTJohn Reynolds and his organization Veterans2Work seek to educate both veterans and companies on the ways to find and utilize each other. By teaching veterans about going on a job search and teaching companies how best to utilize the mission-oriented mindset of a soldier Veterans2Work hopes to lower the unemployment rate of young and disabled veterans.
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Helping Survive the Peace
Posted by on May 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM EDTAs a Vietnam verteran, Bob Curry saw the opportunity to help out a new generation of soldiers when the Afganistan War and War in Iraq began. He began DryHootch, a non-profit organizaiton, with the goal in mind to give veterans a safe, alcohol-free, drug-free environment to deal with the PTS they might be feeling after returning home.
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In Service - Veterans Helping Veterans
Posted by on May 24, 2012 at 10:50 AM EDTJeffery Hanson works to give veterans the means to reach recovery on their own terms. His non-profit organization Palmetto State Base Camp provides transitional residential housing for homeless veterans supported by a program designed to return veterans to independent living and self-sufficiency.
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