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Returning women vets face a harder road finding work than men (Kansas City Star, October 22, 2011)
Monday, October 31st, 2011Dozens of unanswered job applications grew to hundreds after her Army deployment to Kuwait ended more than four years ago. Hoping for better luck â sheâs yet to draw a regular paycheck since coming home â the Lansing woman has chosen in some instances to keep her veteran status off the resumes.
âI donât get it,â says the 30-year-old college graduate and former drill sergeant. âA lot of employers really have no idea what a military background brings to the table ⦠especially for these women who were so driven to push themselvesâ and serve next to men.
Nothing seems fair about these times in which war veterans are struggling to re-enter the civilian economy. But one cruel statistic leaps out: For returning women, the jobless rate spiked this summer to around 15 percent.
On average, male veterans in the post-9/11 era are more likely than their female counterparts to find work, to collect higher salaries when theyâre hired and, according to some national estimates, to avoid homelessness.
The trends trouble experts and veteransâ advocates. Data going back to the 1940s had placed our nearly 2 million women veterans among the most gainfully employed sectors of the U.S. population. At the start of the 21st century, only 2 percent of those wishing to work were unemployed.
One theory behind their soaring joblessness relates to shifting gender patterns in the overall labor pool. A recession that three years ago hammered male workers, earning the title âman-cession,â has turned into what some call a modest âhe-coveryâ thatâs keeping women out of work.
âSince the recession ended (technically, in the summer of 2009), men in general have added jobs while women continued to lose them,â said Gary Steinberg of the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. A Pew Research Center analysis in July showed men picking up 768,000 jobs in the previous two years while women lost 218,000 jobs.
Additional factors hamper women veterans. Forty percent come home to children. Their rates of divorce while in the military are three times higher than for male troops, according to a report of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
They tend to leave the service at younger ages than men do â and few segments of society are hurting more in this economy than are young adults trying to build careers.
âIs it the younger demographic or something else? I donât know,â said Michael Randol, who served in the Air Force and, as veterans services manager for the Kansas Department of Commerce, helps veterans find employment.
âWhat I would say is that if you asked 10 employers to picture a returning war veteran, women probably arenât going to come up in eight of those descriptions,â he noted. âWe donât automatically think of women serving that role â and we should. Weâre going to be seeing a much bigger influx coming into the workforceâ as troop withdrawals bring women back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maybe the most troubling question in their struggle to find jobs is what veterans themselves cite as a factor: Are women who fight wars perceived negatively in the civilian world?
Were they traumatized? Are they prone to piling too much on their plates? Does publicity about post-traumatic stress disorder spook employers into thinking that veterans in wartime â women in particular â might crack in their cubicles or on a roaring assembly line?
Said veteran Bachler about her PTSD: âAre they thinking Iâm going to go Rambo on them?â
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Just when the economy tanked, in 2008, Valerie Brown finished seven years of active duty in the Army with an âI-got-thisâ confidence.
She had enlisted at 24, leaving a waitress job in Texas after the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001. She learned aviation mechanics, inspected Black Hawk helicopters in Iraq and, during two tours, served on flights carrying wounded troops.
âIn getting out of a manâs world, I was looking to wear a skirt to go to work,â Brown said, and maybe start a family. âWith my training, I didnât think I needed to go into college ⦠I thought it would be a snap, piece of cake.â
She launched her plan months before leaving the service, filing online applications for office openings on Monster.com, USAjobs.com and sites specifically tailored to veterans.
âNever got an interview. Never got an e-mail. Never got nothing,â she said. âI was willing to go anywhere ⦠I literally flipped a coin and landed in Kansas City,â where she stayed with cousins.
Still searching for work in the summer of 2009, Brown launched Plan B.
She enrolled at the University of Missouri-Kansas City to study communications. âHere I am, 34 years old, unmarried and not getting any younger,â she laughed with a roll of her eyes. Her student life has enabled her to hone organizational skills acquired in the military to serve on a leadership council of the Student Veterans of America.
âSometimes these women who serve come back fighting to: one, get their kids back from someoneâs custody; two, find a home; three, find a job,â Brown said. âYou lose a part of yourself you didnât think you could lose ⦠that can-do notionâ that carried her through a military that remains 86 percent male.
Brown is categorized by the U.S. Department of Labor as a âGulf II eraâ veteran, or post-9/11. The government began tracking the employment status of those veterans beginning in 2007 and found curious differences that persist between the genders.
In 2007, the average unemployment rate for male Gulf II veterans was 5.6 percent. For women, 9.3 percent.
The situation has worsened for both genders, but more so for returning women, In August, when the national jobless rate stood at 9.1 percent, theirs hit 16.6 percent, not seasonally adjusted, compared to 8.6 percent for men leaving the wars.
The chasm narrowed last month, but unemployment remained 3.6 percentage points higher for returning women than for men, and 6.1 percent higher for female veterans than for female non-veterans.
Analysts caution against reading too much into percentage fluctuations within the female ranks, as those Gulf II era veterans represent a small number of the labor force â about 400,000 â relative to the male veterans.
While nobody has pinned down specific reasons for more women being left out, some point to recent reductions in the public-sector workforce. About a third of women veterans take government jobs at schools or tax-funded agencies.
âEmployers wonât say it. But, absolutely, I think a lot of them are afraid of some mental-health issueâ among women who have seen battle, said Brown. Reports available on the Department of Veterans Affairsâ website about high rates of PTSD and that âone in five women in the military will report experiencing sexual trauma while servingâ could cause human-resource directors to shudder.
âI may have PTSD â itâs hard not to be affected by what you experience out there â but do I consider myself disabled? Absolutely not,â Brown added. âI might have nightmares, but I can still function.â
Brown has seen severed arms used as splints on fractured legs. Bachler traces her PTSD to her reserve unit in New Jersey being dispatched to recover bodies at the site of the World Trade Center, 12 hours after the twin towers fell.
âI think thereâs a gigantic lack of understanding of PTSD ⦠and for women veterans this may be especially a problem,â particularly if the person doing the hiring is a woman who hasnât served, Bachler said.
She added that many employers overlook the âsoft skillsâ veterans bring home â leadership, time management and organizing â and assume women in the service spend their time greasing tanks. (For her part, Bachler managed a network of military post offices and dreams of writing novels.)
Last spring, she and other veterans â men and women â traveled to Washington to lobby Congress about the needs of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. One solution, they said, would be to allow skills acquired in the military, whether aviation repair or teaching, to be certified for civilian work.
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Of the hundreds of local veterans who showed up this summer for the Heart of America Stand Down â providing health screenings, job tips and haircuts for the homeless who served â more than 60 were women needing permanent shelter.
Stand Down coordinator Jennifer Gould said they hide their troubles. One veteran she counseled feared that Missouri authorities would take her son away if they learned he was living in a car with her.
As of March 2009, more than 30,000 single moms had deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, usually leaving their kids in the custody of a grandparent or other relatives. Upon returning, most have few options but to âcouch surf,â Gould said, until landing a job.
âThere are problems out there, but a lot of itâs very secretive,â said Gould, a longtime Army reservist who last wore a uniform in 2007. âWomen in the military are so used to serving and never, never asking for helpâ¦
âI was unemployed all last year, but if you asked how I was doing, Iâd say, âIâm fine. How can I help you?âââ
Absent scenes on street corners of women holding signs saying âVet Needs Work,â some question whether those returning from war are facing the kind of crisis that jobless statistics suggest. Kansas Cityâs BNSF Railway says it has hired more than 1,000 veterans â representing 26 percent of the new employees â just this year.
âWeâre not seeing it as dreary as all that,â said Drew Myers, chief executive officer of RecruitMilitary, an Ohio-based company that helps civilian employers track down skilled veterans for hire. âWeâre getting contacted by big companies all over looking for that fantastic work ethic ⦠and wanting to reward them for their sacrifice.â
He said one reason for unemployment among veterans â male and female â is that many âreturn to their homes and want to reconnect with their families, recharge their batteries, collect unemployment and relax a while. Weâre seeing that happening in droves.
âYou might be thinking about having a family ⦠and while deciding if you should maybe go to school, youâre collecting unemployment. After what theyâve been through, itâs hard to fault that.â
Teaming with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, RecruitMilitary hosted a âHiring Our Heroesâ jobs fair on Thursday at the Uptown Theater.
And on Friday and Saturday, a regional conference of womenâs veterans will convene at Macedonia Baptist Church in Kansas City to discuss job-hunting and related issues, such as how to obtain free legal services and child care.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Donna Dopson may attend both. Sheâs due to retire next spring.
Luckier than most, her work at Whiteman Air Force Base developed highly sought skills in health administration and information technology. But like many military couples, she and her husband settled in a small town and raised kids near the post.
Dopson, 43, has been putting out feelers for seven months âand the prospects look low around hereâ¦,â she says.
âWe may have to move toward Kansas City or commute a long way. It does weigh on me.â
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Alliance Online News: Registration Now Open for 2012 National Conference
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Online Registration Now Open for 2012 National Conference
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Mongo Kids Eat for Three
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Columbus’ bd’s Mongolian Grill is making dining out more affordable for families by offering a discount on kids’ meals on Mondays and Tuesdays. For a limited time, kids 11 and under will eat for when an adult meal is purchased (two kids meals per adult meal purchased). For a little fun for the kids, [...] [...]
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CCAD’s Design Square Apartments Wins Design Award
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Design Square Apartment Award
CCAD’s Design Square Apartments has yet another award to hang for its architectural design.
The apartments originally opened in the fall of 2009. The five-story building combines the convenience of on-campus housing with the independence of apartment living for upperclass students, and includes a dining facility and convenience market.
AIA Ohio, A Society of the American Institute of Architects presented its excellence in architectural design award to CCAD for the Design Square Apartments this year.
This is not the first design award the apartments has received. In 2009, they won the Honor Design Award from the Columbus chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
The building was designed by Acock Associates. They were founded in 1967 by former trustee George W. Acock, AIA, NCARB. The firm also received an AIA Columbus Merit Award in 2005 for CCAD’s Loann Crane Center for Design.
The apartments gained media attention when they opened and were a part of a new trend toward gender-neutral roommate selection. Students are able to choose their roommates regardless of their gender to help pick the most compatible living arrangement. The movement also helps to gay and transgendered students feel comfortable in on-campus housing.
Columbus College of Art & Design Blog
Lions & Tigers & Bears, thank God for Licking County
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS in Muskingum County, Ohio are two counties away. Reading this from far away? Most of Columbus is in Franklin County. The animals escaped from an exotic animal farm in Muskingum County. Licking County is between Franklin and Muskingum County.
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I was not paying attention to Twitter last night. I would have known about the breaking story earlier if I had been. I was watching Channel 10 when they broke in with the story.
Lions, tigers, bears, cheetahs… running free in the rain. I am assuming it is raining in Muskingum County.
I am interested to hear more about it. I have news on now…
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CCAD, ART Mark Community Trail
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Mayor Michael Coleman speaks on CCAD campus
CCAD and it’s Art sign are officially blazing the trail for The city’s latest program–Columbus Arts Walk, which is a program to promote healthy living that features artistic, historical, and architectural sites in nine Columbus neighborhoods.
On Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, CCAD unveiled their sign under the ART statue in front of the Joseph V. Canzani Center. Mayor Michael Coleman, Columbus city council member Priscilla Tyson, Columbus public health commissioner Dr. Teresa Long, and other community members joined Vice President of Academic Affairs Kevin Conlon at the ceremony.
“It is great that we have become involved in this community culture,” Conlon says. “It promotes conversations and the exchange of ideas.”
The program was developed by Columbus Public Health to promote active living and help to build healthy environments.
There will be 26 sites incorporated into Columbus Art Walks and free educational resources to help plan outings and trips to the destinations.
“Art acts as a magnet to attract creative and innovative people to those spaces, creating a domino effect that benefits the entire community.”
Columbus College of Art & Design Blog
Dental Implants & Cosmetic Dentistry ? Wonders For Achieving Shiny Smile
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Dental Implants & Cosmetic Dentistry – Wonders For Achieving Shiny Smile
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Editorial: A Foolish Time to Cut Housing Aid (New York Times, October 25, 2011)
Thursday, October 27th, 2011With record numbers of families teetering on the verge of homelessness, Congress should be shoring up the precious few federal programs that provide affordable housing for the poor, the elderly and the disabled. Instead, both the House and Senate are considering cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development budget, which would hurt cash-strapped states and communities in sheltering the most vulnerable citizens.
The agency spends most of its budget on low-income programs, including on rent vouchers used by nearly two million families and a program that makes it possible for developers to set aside affordable units in multifamily buildings. The Obama administration has asked Congress for about .7 billion for the department, roughly the same amount as in each of the past three years. It says that the proposed House budget would provide about billion, and the one in the Senate about billion.
The federal governmentâs failure beginning in 1990s to meet its commitment to public housing makes further cuts devastating. Public housing, with more than billion in a backlog of repairs, is on the verge of collapse. Unless Congress puts significant money into the capital fund, tens of thousands of units around the country will continue to crumble and could be lost forever.
The administration has asked for a modest .8 billion for the Community Development Block Grant program, which was set up to improve housing, infrastructure and economic opportunities to poor and moderate-income people in all communities. If Congress falls short of that request, it could kill off building and renovation projects, sacrificing as many as 6,000 jobs.
Congress should fully finance the million housing counseling program, which helps distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure; a cut seems particularly foolish when millions of families are facing threats of foreclosure. Given a recent surge in homelessness, Congress would also be wise to come up with the .4 billion for the departmentâs homelessness prevention and rehousing program. This is no time to abandon needy families. A relatively small investment could prevent hardship and homelessness for people who have no other resources.
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For Obama, new focus on the piecemeal (Associated Press, October 26, 2011)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011LOS ANGELES (AP) â The president who ran for office promising sweeping change now finds himself calling for baby steps.
Blocked by congressional Republicans yet determined to show action as he seeks re-election, President Barack Obama has scaled back his ambitions from major initiatives like universal health care, to smaller-bore programs he can do on his own or that are uncontroversial enough for Republicans to go along. Think patent reform, reducing health regulations, or helping with student loans.
Even his jobs bill has been broken into what the president calls “bite-size pieces”.
The new approach, which the White House is pushing under the slogan “We Can’t Wait,” represents at once a pragmatic shift by an administration with limited tools to fix the dismal economy, and a recognition of political reality when the opposition controls part of Congress and an election year looms.
Obama can’t afford to sit around doing nothing. But circumstances won’t let him do too much. The question is whether what he’s aiming for will be enough â to help the economy, or his own political fortunes.
“I’d amend the bumper sticker to say ‘We can’t wait, but we can’t do much in the meantime,’” said Paul Light, professor of public policy at New York University. “It might be politically effective because it suggests that he’s doing something that Congress isn’t, but in terms of actual impacts on real policy a lot of it is pretty thin.”
The White House counters that Obama is well aware that the steps he’s been pushing are no substitute for legislative action. But while continuing to pressure Congress to pass portions of his 7 billion jobs package of tax credits and public works spending, the president is determined to do what he can on his own, officials said.
“It would be incorrect to suggest that we are shifting from large-scale to small-scale solutions,” said White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer. “We are pushing aggressively, 24-7, for a very specific, significant, economic package, the American Jobs Act. While we are doing that and while Congress is not acting we’re not waiting around twiddling our thumbs. We’re doing everything in our power to improve the lives of families across this country.”
So on Tuesday, with Obama in California midway through a three-day West Coast swing, the White House rolled out an initiative to challenge community health centers to hire 8,000 veterans over the next three years. Officials said it was aimed at making progress in employing veterans should Congress not make such a push through tax credits, as Obama called for in his jobs bill.
On Monday, the focus was housing, with Obama picking hard-hit Las Vegas to announce a new program to help homeowners refinance at lower mortgage rates. The issue is a huge one, but the deal was limited, affecting perhaps 1 million to 1.6 million people â a fraction of the 11 million facing foreclosure.
And on Wednesday in Denver Obama was to announce plans to allow students to limit their loan payments.
These steps come after other recent announcements, including plans by the White House to exempt states from some of the strict requirements of No Child Left Behind, speed up payments to federal contractors, accelerate permits for select public works projects, and scrap certain rules for the health care industry.
Such initiatives are consequential, certainly, for the people or businesses affected. But they are modest compared to the ambitions of Obama’s campaign, when he promised to change the very way Washington does business, or the initiatives from earlier in his term, such as the health care and financial regulation overhauls.
It’s not to say Obama doesn’t have major business he’d still like to accomplish.
Take immigration: the president has long wanted to tackle comprehensive immigration legislation to create a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. But without Congress going along, he’s limited in what he can do, as he himself acknowledged Monday night at a fundraiser at the home of Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.
“We have a system that is broken, and we are doing everything we can administratively to try to lessen the pain and the hardship that it’s causing,” the president said. “…But again, I’m going to need your help. Because we’re not going to be able to get this done by ourselves.”
Congress has shown only rare signs of late of giving the president what he wants, agreeing recently to three long-delayed free trade deals, as well as a bill overhauling the patent system. Republicans may well agree to some elements in Obama’s jobs bill, including extending payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits. But the outlook for major legislative achievements is dim for the rest of Obama’s term, and so the White House intends to stay focused on highlighting congressional inaction and the steps Obama can take on his own. Announcements are planned weekly through the end of the year, sometimes on items so narrow they affect individual communities.
Obama’s hardly the first president to go small.
Then-President Bill Clinton proposed dozens of small-bore programs such as supporting school uniforms in his successful 1996 re-election campaign, low-cost initiatives designed to appeal to targeted voters. George W. Bush promoted volunteering and foster care, issues that allowed him to trumpet his “compassionate conservative” credentials without spending too much political capital.
Executive power and the bully pulpit can be potent tools for presidents, ones that Congress and campaign-trail opponents can never take away. For Obama, hemmed in by a rambunctious House GOP majority and a Republican Party thirsting to take his job next year, they may be among the few strategies he has left.
“I do think he’s going to continue to do more of this, and I do think the voters will say at least you’re trying here,” said Brendan Daly, former spokesman to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and now a public relations executive at Ogilvy Washington. “He’s the president. He’s got to try to do everything he can.”
Editors Note: Kuhnhenn reported from Los Angeles; Werner from Washington
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