One Week Left to Help Your Military Hero Win $25,000Toward Purchase of a Car on AutoTrader.com

ATLANTA, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — There’s only one week left to nominate your military hero for a chance to win $25,000 toward the purchase of a car listed for sale on AutoTrader.com in the “Heroes with Drive” contest. AutoTrader.com is sponsoring the contest in partnership with the Lifetime cable network and the deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, July 6.

To enter, participants can visit www.mylifetime.com and click on the “Heroes with Drive” icon in the “Sweepstakes” section of the page, located in the middle right or just click here. Then contest participants can upload a story of 500 words or less highlighting why their military hero is deserving of the contest prize. Participants can also upload photos, drawings or other items to help illustrate the story of their hero. The nominator of the winning hero will also win $500. Read More »

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the midst of the great recession, a depressed job market is hitting veterans particularly hard. Unemployment numbers for all veterans continues to hover near 12 percent, but for service members who left the military in the past three years unemployment is 18 percent, nearly twice the national average.

“The way we treat our veterans when they return home is an indication of our national character,” said J. David Cox, AFGE national secretary-treasurer, who was a registered nurse in the VA for over 20 years prior to being elected to the union’s executive leadership. “These brave men and women volunteered, served valiantly, and have to come home to stand in the unemployment line. There is something very wrong with that.”

The high unemployment rate of returning service members has not escaped the attention of the White House. On Nov. 9, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at enhancing the recruitment and promotion of employment opportunities for veterans. The order established a multi-agency “Council on Veterans Employment” and is supposed to develop a strategic plan on how to recruit and employ veterans for federal civilian service. According to the union, however, any plan developed by the Council should address the systemic risk to federal civilian employment of veterans posed by the expanded use of for-profit contractors. Ironically, the VA – the agency that strives to be the model employer of veterans — has contracted out more jobs held by veterans than most other agencies. Read More »

PHILADELPHIA, PA \Sept. 22, 2009 \ DIVERSE NEWS –
Not surprising but more Americans are getting their news source from merry old England everyday.
I guess they are sick of the mainstream media and would rather get a different view.
Here’s the paidcontent.org story

-JT

NEW YORK, July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has joined forces with American Corporate Partners (ACP), as part of a nationwide career mentoring program for the generation of veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ACP, a New York-based nonprofit, provides a unique career development opportunity for veterans, from former enlisted members and officers to current Reservists and National Guard members, who have served on active duty after 2001. Also welcome in the program are the spouses of those service members severely wounded or who died while serving. ACP is not a jobs program, but designed to assist veterans in their career development.

To listen to an IBM audio interview on this new program, please visit http://www-03.ibm.com/press/feed/audio/IBM_Podcast_mentoring_vets.mp3 Read More »