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February 11, 2012

Another view: Job Corps for vets

Anonymous ---- The Record Eagle Sat Feb 11, 2012, 07:14 AM EST

Military veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have an employment rate of 13.1 percent, compared to the non-veterans rate of 8.1 percent. It's an embarrassment that men and women returning have trouble landing and keeping jobs in the country they defended.

A new program modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s could put thousands of them back to work. President Obama announced creation of the "Veterans Jobs Corps" that will employ up to 20,000 veterans.

The men and women would be tasked with restoring trails, roads and levees on public lands, often rebuilding what civilian volunteers built decades ago.

It'll cost about $1 billion to put those veterans to work. ...

The Norman Transcript, Norman, Okla.

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