Veterans Employment Data
Post-9/11 Service Members and the Great Recession
Men and women who have served in the armed forces since September 2001 continue to experience unemployment at an unacceptably high rate. While the unemployment rate among individuals who are not veterans is 8.7 percent [as reported un May 2012], the unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans is 12.1 percent. Moreover, the unemployment rate for these veterans increased more than 0.5 percentage point between 2010 and 2011, while the unemployment rate for nonveterans decreased 0.7 percentage point over the same period. Among the youngest veterans, those age 18 to 24, who comprise 12.5 percent of the post-9/11 veteran population, the unemployment situation…
