Judd Gregg Forces Lazy Jobless to Look for Work

Does Gregg get the whole "Sacred Trust" thing? (0.00 / 0)

www.dodvclips.mil

The May jobless numbers follow earlier reports this Spring, showing a growing number of young veterans among those out of work.

Bill Would Help Jobless Veterans

...thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have come home to find their military training of little apparent value in today's civilian economy. Despite signs that the recession has ended and unemployment has leveled off, the jobless rate among young vets is 21.2 percent, according to the Labor Department.

And it's getting worse -- in 2008, just 14 percent of vets age 18 to 24 were jobless.

"One in five of our nation's heroes, dedicated and disciplined workers, can't find a job to support their families, don't have an income that gives them stability," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Tuesday. "How can this be?"

Murray led a bipartisan group of senators Tuesday in introducing legislation to provide special job training and placement assistance to new veterans. Her Veterans Employment Act of 2010 would:
* Extend the "Post 9/11 GI Bill," passed in 2008 to cover the cost of apprenticeship and vocational training programs for veterans. The law currently pays only the cost of tuition and living expenses for veterans pursuing a college degree.

* Create a Veteran Business Center in the federal Small Business Administration to give vets training and counseling in starting their own small businesses.

* Create pilot programs to help veterans market the technical skills they gain in the military to get civilian jobs.

* Create a pair of grant programs to help connect veterans to new "green jobs" on environmental and alternative energy projects.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 09:21:16 AM CDT

Jobless Veterans (0.00 / 0)

From IAVA:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released their jobs report for the month of June, and the economic situation for new veterans looks bleak.

Numbers you need to know:

11.5 percent:  Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans' unemployment rate in June.  

9.5 percent: national unemployment rate in June.

12.5 percent: average unemployment rate of new veterans during the first six months of 2010.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 13:59:30 PM CDT

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"Cruel to be Kind" (4.00 / 1)

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 10:52:02 AM CDT

Gregg's voting (0.00 / 0)

Maybe, like, he actually read the Constitution and couldn't find a delegated power that would allow Congress to legislate on this matter.

And before you go off on a rant about the ICC, just remember that someday maybe the GOP will control Congress and would want to legislate on something we don't like.

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by: frank @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 13:13:42 PM CDT

We? (0.00 / 0)

Maybe, like, he cherry picks what he needs from the Constitution and applies it at his convenience.

And only SCOTUS gets to do that, if I read my Constitution right.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 13:39:37 PM CDT

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whom is this "we" (0.00 / 0)

you speak of, Frank?  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 13:53:13 PM CDT

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"we" (0.00 / 0)

O' you know, Sue, people who think that the document to which our representatives have taken an oath to support actually might mean something along the lines of the words actually found in that document.

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by: frank @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 19:39:26 PM CDT

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Where in the constitution is it written (4.00 / 1)

that the unemployed will not look for work if they get jobless benefits for too long?

Because that's Judd Gregg's own stated rationale for blocking the benefits.

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Jul 02, 2010 at 20:13:07 PM CDT

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Oh, Frankie (0.00 / 0)

your CONCERN is touching.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 13:01:55 PM CDT

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?? (0.00 / 0)

Are you claiming that the entire unemployment insurance system is unconstitutional?

Gregg hasn't made that claim.

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by: elwood @ Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 19:52:25 PM CDT

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