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Take Action: They've Worked for Us, It's Time We Work for Them!
Call for legislation that places veterans in jobs where their skills are needed and provides vital services in our communities!
In late 2012, the Senate failed to muster the sixty votes required to move forward with the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012. Forty Republican Senators rejected the legislation, citing concerns over the $1 billion cost associated with the program - a fraction of the $1.4 trillion spent on sending US troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. Tell Congress to invest in our veterans and the nation's future.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 2,520
Sponsored by: The Veterans Site
At a time when America's unemployed veterans number near a million, we must focus on what we can do to put our former service members back to work. Our veterans are qualified, intelligent people who have honed their skills while serving our country. But many have trouble finding a niche of their own, where their expertise can be truly put to work.
We have to advocate for our veterans, creating jobs that meet both their experience and their needs. This means putting them to work in such areas like restoring our national parks and forests, civil service work, and in other arenas where America is lacking qualified and responsible workers.
The Veteran Jobs Corps Act of 2012 offered such a framework but failed to make it past the Senate. Tell Congress the time has come for a job bill that capitalizes on veteran skills, putting them back to work for America.
Dear Senator Patty Murray:
I would like to personally thank you for your tireless advocacy on behalf of America's veterans. As we continue to bring troops home from their service overseas, we need to address the endemic unemployment rate among America's service members.
Your previous efforts—introducing the Veteran Employment Assistance Act of 2010 and co-sponsoring the Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012—demonstrate an unwavering pursuit of meaningful employment opportunities for returning veterans. Despite the congressional hurdles, I implore you to reintroduce new legislation that allocates the resources and incentives for public and private enterprises to put veteran skills to good use, serving our communities.
Substantive legislation can go a long way to fulfilling America's obligations to its swelling ranks of veterans, many recently returned from combat. They've done their duty; now let's do ours.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Cody Cliff
May 14, 2013
Tim Roth
Thank you and please never stop helping.
We never will!!!
May 14, 2013
Debra Parks
Our Veteran's ROCK! We LOVE you all. Thank you.
May 14, 2013
Michelle Dzoch
May 14, 2013
Endrea Whitbeck
Thank you Veteran's!!!
May 14, 2013
marianne bosschen
May 14, 2013
Stella Thompson
May 14, 2013
Mary Hunter
Take care of our veterans. They deserve it.
May 14, 2013
gail esposito
May 14, 2013
Janet Clayton
May 14, 2013
laura jones
May 14, 2013
Chris Carey
May 13, 2013
Emma Mann
May 13, 2013
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May 13, 2013
Terry Lewis
Veterans need this bill, NOW.
May 13, 2013
Marcia Silverstein
They fought for us now it is time for us to fight for them.
May 13, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Freedom isn't free and we should NEVER forget that fact.
May 13, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Dear Senator Patty Murry;
I would like to thank you for your hard work on behave of veterans. I am a veteran of the Veit Nam war.
I would like to tell the "Republicans" yhey need to live up to the promise of their jobs waiting for them.
May 13, 2013
Linda Wheeler
May 13, 2013
Larrie Hoops
May 13, 2013
dianne trapasso
May 13, 2013
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May 13, 2013
Claudia Mackey
May 13, 2013
Wayne Miller
May 13, 2013
Cindy Rhodes
May 13, 2013
nancy evans
May 13, 2013
Diane Kleb
May 13, 2013
WENDY FISH
For everything they have done, they deserve extra help in finding employment and even special treatment. They risked their lives for us and we owe them help in finding employment.
May 13, 2013
sandi crist
May 13, 2013
Linda Davis
May 13, 2013
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May 13, 2013
jeanette campbell
Put our veterans back to work!!!!
May 13, 2013
James Weathers
All government jobs should go to vets first. Any government supported companies should have to hire vets first!!
May 13, 2013
David Rodenbaugh
May 13, 2013
Kimberle Taitano
May 12, 2013
Karina Pettinger
May 12, 2013
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Praying always for our veteran's, but actual action is needed.
May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Please, please continue your efforts for the veterans. They so deserve it.
May 12, 2013
C Scheeler
May 12, 2013
Darlene Turner
May 12, 2013
Vickie Harris
May 12, 2013
Lyn Hargrave
May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Jerry Richardson
Im tired off seeing our vets do without...just so our so called government can keep kissing all the anit's asses...DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CHANGE.
May 12, 2013
Vincent Carney
May 12, 2013
Kaitlyn Smith
May 12, 2013
Joanna Schiff
