When Troops Come Home
Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families are releasing data stating that the unemployment rate for veterans ages 18-24 nearly doubled from 7.5% in February 2021 to 15.1% in March 2021. America has seen a dramatic leap in unemployment and organizations are starting to mobilize to bring jobs to North Carolina veterans. Did you know that when employers hire and train Veterans with service-connected disabilities, they could qualify for incentives and tax credits?
Our Veterans don’t want a hand out as they suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, aka PTSD, an anxiety disorder that follows experiencing a traumatic event, that our Troops are most likely to experience when coming back to their homes. Most Veterans just want normal back. There are programs to help our Veterans with that include: disability compensation, educational programs, job training, counseling, Veteran’s pension programs, housing and home loan guarantees, and more.
