The 100,000 Jobs Mission was founded by eleven companies in 2011 and set a goal of hiring 100,000 veterans by 2020. As of now there 154 companies associated with the project. According to Shannon O-Reilly, a spokeswoman for JPMorgan Chase, those companies have hired 140,832 vets through the first quarter of 2014. The results have […]
Employment
Bernie Sanders Proposes Hiring Vets to Reduce VA Disability Claims Backlog
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont believes he has a solution to cut down on the out-of-control VA disability claims backlog at regional offices around the country. Senator Sanders, who also serves as chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill that would create a group within VA whose mission it is to […]
New Budget Proposes to Add Money for VA Benefits
As VA continues to fall more and more behind in processing disability claims, the agency will have additional funds next year. The 2014 fiscal budget will increase VA’s discretionary funding by 4 percent, to $63.5 billion. The additional money for VA benefits will be used, in part, to add mental health services. VA’s efforts to […]