Vets unemployment improves, national jobless rate lowest since 1969
A worker passes a hiring sign at a construction site. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) The veterans unemployment rate in January fell below 3% for the 10th time in the last 11…
A worker passes a hiring sign at a construction site. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) The veterans unemployment rate in January fell below 3% for the 10th time in the last 11…
Lawmakers must extend critical pandemic authorities for veterans care before formally ending the national health emergency related to COVID-19 or else risk disrupting medical services for tens of thousands of…
Veterans Affairs leaders would be blocked from deploying the department’s new electronic health records system at any additional medical centers until significant safeguards are put in place, under legislation introduced…
A special House panel on military quality of life issues plans to spend the next year analyzing service member pay issues with an eye towards significant financial boosts for junior…
Republican lawmakers are renewing calls for the Department of Defense to reinstate thousands of troops dismissed from the service last year for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, calling it…
Veterans Affairs staffers helped move more than 40,000 veterans into permanent housing last year, surpassing their goal and establishing new pathways to help individuals in need, officials announced today. Eleven…
Lawmakers exit the Capitol building. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Once again, the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will begin its work this year with more new members than returning ones. Thirteen of…
(VA photo) Veterans Affairs officials saw a surge in patients enrolling in department health care services following the passage of sweeping military toxic exposure legislation last summer, but leaders are…
A U.S. airman stands guard during a supply mission at Baledogle Airfield in Somalia on Nov. 8, 2022. (Tech. Sgt. Jayson Burns/Air Force) U.S. special operations forces this week killed…
In the UK, Boris Johnson has received his questionnaire from police investigating allegations of lockdown-breaching parties in No 10, Downing Street has said. A No 10 spokesperson said: “We can…