PRESS TV – Recent data released by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that more than one fifth of US veterans aged between 18-24 returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were unemployed in 2010.
The unemployment rate for the young male veterans was nearly 22 percent last year, more than two percent higher than their non-veteran counterparts, a press TV correspondent reported on Saturday.
“More than 25 percent of us returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can’t find employment (in the first year),” said Jake Diliberto from Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan.
“One of the major reasons is because we have ongoing deployments, we have ongoing wars. We can’t enter the workplace and sustain the job successfully,” he added.
Experts say it is challenging for some veterans to translate their military skills into civilian life. Furthermore, the unemployment problem is exasperated by the mental and physical injuries soldiers sustained during the wars.
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