Unemployment Among Young Vets Skyrocketed in 2009

Written by Call of Duty Endowment on March 12, 2010 – 4:15 pm -

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report today on 2009 veterans’ unemployment figures, which show some alarming growth rates from 2008.

The 2009 unemployment rate for all Gulf War-Era II Veterans was 10.2 percent, compared to 7.3 percent in 2008. In the same period, the unemployment rate for young post-9/11 vets jumped from 14.1 percent to a staggering 21.6 percent.

Reporting on these figures, the AP spoke with Call of Duty Endowment Advisory Board Member Lisa Rosser, who had this advice for young vets: “If they talk about their general leadership skills and their ability to supervise and to manage people, especially at a very young age, that is a good sell … because the average 24-year-old and 27-year-old in the military has similar supervisory and managerial experience as someone in their 30s on the civilian side.”

Figures showing veterans unemployment trends progressing in the wrong direction from year to year serve as a reminder of the importance of the Call of Duty Endowment mission: to assist those organizations that provide our former service members with job placement, training and educational services in their post military careers.

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