Post-9/11 vets unemployment dips in April

May 7, 2010 in Veterans News by Editor

Friday’s Labor Department announcement that the U.S. economy grew 295,000 jobs in April includes some good news for post-9/11 veterans, whose unemployment rate dropped to 13.1 percent.

That is down from 14.7 percent reported in March for what the Labor Department describes as Gulf War-era II veterans, but it is still well above the April 2009 rate of 10.3 percent.

For veterans of all generations, the April unemployment rate was 9.1 percent, lower than the 9.9 percent national rate. While veterans are doing better overall than nonveterans, the job market still remains tougher today than one year ago, when the rate for all veterans was 8.5 percent.

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