Joining Forces to Provide Jobs for Military Families

[Tx4obama]

Published on Apr 30, 2013

Joining Forces is dedicated to connecting our servicemen and women, veterans and military spouses with the resources they need to find jobs at home.

Learn more at http://www.joiningforces.gov

Three related posts regarding Michelle Obama and Jill Biden and Joining Forces, below...

August 22, 2012
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/22/first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-125000-veterans-military-spouses-hir

February 25, 2013
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/25/renewing-national-commitment-putting-america-s-heroes-back-work

White House says jobs program has exceeded goal

May 1 2013

Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama announced Tuesday that companies participating in a program to help veterans find work have hired or trained 290,000 veterans and military spouses since August 2011, nearly tripling the original goal of the program with about eight months to spare.

Obama said Tuesday that the program called Joining Forces has also generated pledges from businesses to hire or train another 435,000 in the next five years.

The new hiring projections came at a White House event with veterans and company executives that also featured President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden. The president said that too many companies still don't recognize the skills that service members acquire as part of their military service. If they can saves live on the battlefield, they can work in an ambulance or hospital, and if they can oversee a convoy of equipment, they can help oversee a company's supply chain, he said.

"Too often, just when these men and women are looking forward to the next chapter of their lives, they are stuck in neutral," the president said.

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Full article here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/president-first-lady-ask-companies-hire-vets

[bowens43]

1. I for one am sick and tired of special treatment for military or ex-military.....

why in the hell is it more important for them to be employed then non-military?