White House rolling out programs to help veterans find jobs By Vicki Needham - 11/07/11 10:40 AM
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/192109-white-house-rolling-out-programs-to-help-veterans-find-jobsThe White House is turbo-charging programs to help veterans find work while leaning on the Senate to pass a package this week of tax incentives for businesses that hire unemployed veterans.
The Senate is expected to consider a measure this week that would provide tax breaks President Obama will announce at noon Monday the rolling out a new online job bank for veterans and a "gold card" service that will provide intensive individual help for job-seeking veterans at career centers.
The Senate veterans’ bill melds proposals from Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and Obama.
The proposal set for consideration this week would provide businesses with a "Returning Heroes" tax credit for 2012-2013, a $2,400 credit for hiring an unemployed veteran who has been unemployed for at least a month. The tax credit would increase to $4,800 for hiring a veteran who has been unemployed six months or longer.
The bill also includes a two-year extension of the "Wounded Warriors" tax credit, which gives companies that hire veterans with service-related disabilities a $4,800 credit. If the veteran has been unemployed for six months of more the tax credit increases to $9,600.
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Here is the Whitehouse site link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/07/we-cant-wait-obama-administration-announces-new-initiatives-get-veterans-back-workThe President also announced a series of executive actions that will provide new resources for veterans to translate military experience to the private sector job market, give veterans additional career development support and better identify companies looking to hire veterans. These initiatives include:
Veteran Gold Card: Effective today, post-9/11 veterans will be able to visit dol.gov/vets/goldcard.html to download the Veteran Gold Card, which entitles them to enhanced services including six months of personalized case management, assessments and counseling, at the roughly 3,000 One-Stop Career Centers located across the country. This should help serve the more than 200,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans. The President directed the Department of Labor to launch this initiative in his August 4, 2011 speech at the Navy Yard.
My Next Move for Veterans: The Department of Labor will launch My Next Move for Veterans (mynextmove.org/vets), a new online resource that allows veterans to enter their military occupation code and discover civilian occupations for which they are well qualified. The site will also include information about salaries, apprenticeships, and other related education and training programs.
Creating a Veterans Job Bank: Today, the Administration launched the Veterans Jobs Bank, at National Resource Directory (NRD.gov), an easy to use tool to help veterans find job postings from companies looking to hire them. It already searches over 500,000 job postings and continues to grow. Additionally, in a few easy steps, companies looking to hire veterans can make sure the job postings on their own websites are part of this Veterans Jobs Bank.
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Thank you President Obama, Michelle, and Vice President Biden and Jill for your dedication to this very important matter! With suicides going up for Veterans it is so very important to push this to the front of the news media and make sure that people see the Republicans only talk about Veterans and do NOT walk the walk!