Richard Sisk

The 2.8% jobless rate for veterans in October once again was better than the 4.1% rate for the general population, but the figure that stood out most from the monthly jobs report Friday was the stunning drop in job growth.

The number recruited from the military community for poll worker duty this year far exceeds the 63,500 veterans and family members who joined up to put in shifts at polling stations for the midterm elections in 2022.

Federal district Judge David O. Carter made clear that his main purpose in ordering how the VA's property should be used was to provide shelter for the nearly 3,000 veterans in the area estimated to be homeless.

The unemployment rate for the generation of veterans who served after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks fell by a full percentage point to 2.5% in a September hiring surge that added 254,000 jobs to the nation's payrolls.

To honor those who flew more than 496,000 Army medevac missions from May 1962 through March 1973, the House last week passed the Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act.

The class-action suit was filed in November 2022 by the nonprofit Public Counsel law firm on behalf of 14 unhoused and disabled veterans who had experienced post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.

U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during World War II, and in the process helped shine a light on one of the war's most ill-fated secret operations.

The unemployment rate for female veterans rose to 7% in August while the rate for all veterans bumped up to 3.5% -- even as the jobless rate for the general population ticked down from 4.3% to 4.2%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Homeless veterans who were wounded, injured or became sick during their time in uniform will no longer have their disability benefits counted against them in the struggle to find affordable housing.

The summit was expected to focus on shoring up support for Ukraine, but will now have as a backdrop the implications of Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump.