More and more veterans who’ve served in the armed forces are going back to work as veteran unemployment continues to drop. The concerted efforts made over recent years to gain attention to the issue of unemployed and homeless veterans have reaped reasonable results, improving the employment status of veterans in 2014.
Though a lot of ground has been covered, more needs to be done because there are many hurdles ahead. America has 21.2 million veterans over the age of 18 in civilian life, of which about 11% are women. At last count, 7.2% of the veterans are still unemployed. This number stands at 16.2% for veterans in the age bracket of 18-24. Forth six percent of employed veterans feel that they are underemployed. This translates into 10.56 million veterans who are unemployed or underemployed as of today. More than one million veterans are living below the poverty line, with 57000 of them being homeless.
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