10% Unemployment for Post-9/11 Era Vets; 246,000 Looking for Work

Photo Credit: AP/Toby TalbotThe Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that among U.S. military veterans, who were on active duty at some point from September 2001 to the present, the unemployment rate is 10.0 percent.

When President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the unemployment rate among this group of veterans was 8.9 percent.

The rate had dropped as low as 7.2 percent this June, but has been climbing since then, and is above the overall national unemployment rate, which is 7.3 percent.

In January 2009, when Obama took office, there were 135,000 unemployed post-9/11 era veterans. In October 2013, there were 246,000–an increase of 111,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans during Obama’s presidency.

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