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Veterans unemployment shows improvement amid negative reports on U.S. job market

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The jobless rate among U.S. veterans improved in December even as national employment numbers showed discouraging signs of sluggishness amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The unemployment rate among all American veterans fell to 5.3 percent in December, according to estimates released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number was 6.3 percent in November and had been as high as 11.7 percent last spring, when widespread layoffs and furloughs related to virus precautions severely hurt U.S. businesses.

The unemployment rate among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan War era showed even greater improvement, decreasing from 6.9 percent in November to 5.1 percent in December. Veterans of the first Gulf War era saw their unemployment rate drop to 4.4 percent.

A veteran died March 14 at the Portland VA Medical Center in Oregon, the first known death of a VA patient from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. (Department of Veterans Affairs photo)

The positive veterans news comes as the American economy lost about 140,000 jobs last month, the first overall decline for the nation since April. The national unemployment rate now sits at 6.7 percent.

In a statement, BLS officials blamed the job losses on “the recent increase in coronavirus cases and efforts to contain the pandemic.”

More than 21.2 million Americans have been infected by the virus in the last 10 months and more than 360,000 have died from complications related to it. Many of those deaths and cases have come in just the last few months, as nearly every state in the country has seen dramatic spikes due to holiday travel and relaxed restrictions in public areas.

Airmen from the 50th Space Wing walk during the Colorado Springs Veteran’s Day Parade on Nov. 5, 2016. (Christopher DeWitt/Air Force)

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BLS officials reported that 15.8 million Americans were unable to maintain full-time work because “their employer closed or lost business due to the pandemic.”

The veterans employment numbers, while better than the general population, are still significantly worse than one year ago. In December 2019, the overall veterans unemployment rate was 2.8 percent, nearly half of what was reported last month.

Lawmakers inserted several economic stimulus measures related to veterans’ pandemic challenges in a recently-passed omnibus bill, including new job training programs for out-of-work veterans and new protections for student veterans whose college classes were disrupted by pandemic closures.

That legislation was signed into law by President Trump earlier this week, but implementing those measures is likely to take several months.



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