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Joining Forces Program Steps Up Efforts to Hire Vets

As one million servicemen and women begin to return home from more than a decade of overseas combat, the Obama Administration is continuing its push to find them jobs.At a press conference Tuesday, the White House reignited support for the Joining Forces Program, which launched in 2011, that aims to help find employment for veterans and their spouses through increased recruiting initiatives.Alongside Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden, President Obama said every business should do its part to hire veterans."They deserve good jobs worthy of their incredible talents. Too often just when these men and women are looking forward to moving onto the next chapter of their lives, they are stuck in neutral."When the program began in August 2011, the president  challenged the private sector to hire or train 100,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013.Thus far, American companies have hired or trained 290,000 veterans and military spouses, M...

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