GOAL: LOWER VETS UNEMPLOYMENT BY VETERANS DAY

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are meeting with members of Congress and the Obama administration to urge that everyone commit — amid increasingly partisan rancor — to reducing veterans unemployment.

Their goal is to reduce the veterans unemployment rate to at least match the national unemployment rate by Veterans Day.

The Labor Department reports that in 2010, the unemployment rate for all Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans was 11.5 percent while the unemployment rate for nonveterans was 9.7 percent. READ MORE »