Posts Tagged ‘veterans’
By Annabel Gould - Nov 12th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Yesterday was Veterans Day, a holiday created to honor military veterans. However, the members of the Veterans of Modern Warfare and the Vietnam Veterans of…
Tags: military, veterans, Veterans Affairs
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By Kay Steiger - Nov 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
This election season, the moniker of “Support the Troops” warring with “Support the Troops: Bring Them Home” fell off the national scene. Instead, veterans of…
Tags: G.I. Bill, PTSD, veterans, Veterans Affairs
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By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I’ve written before about the potential problems with enacting the new G.I. Bill legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, but The Washington Post has a…
Tags: college, education, G.I. Bill, higher ed, military, veterans
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By Kay Steiger - Oct 7th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Today over at Campus Progress, we have an article originally published in one of our awesome student publications, UCLA’s Al-Talib. Al-Talib interviewed Iraq war veteran…
Tags: Campus Progress, Iraq war, veterans
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By Kay Steiger - Sep 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
This summer Congress passed a widely anticipated GI Bill revision that was supposed to fix many of the problems that had been lingering since the…
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By Rob Anderson - Sep 5th, 2008 at 10:25 am
According to an Army report released this week, the rate of soldier suicides this year is on course to break last year’s record:
So far…
Tags: health, Iraq war, veterans
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By Kay Steiger - Aug 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Higher Ed Watch has a good breakdown of what’s good and bad about the Higher Ed Reauthorization Act, but it looks like the legislation works…
Tags: education, higher ed, Higher Ed Act, Higher Ed Watch, military, veterans
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By L. Russell Allen - Jun 17th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
The Washington Times (h/t Matthew Yglesias) has published a stunning article which reports that the “government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis…
Tags: health, military, veterans
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By Kay Steiger - Jun 17th, 2008 at 10:13 am
(Courtesy DoD/Lance Cpl. James F. Cline III)
A self-evaluation report released on Friday showed that VA health care (which on the whole tends to be…
Tags: gender equality, veterans
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