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Veterans Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Benefits

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…

Veterans Day: Looking at Veterans’ Needs

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…

G.I. Bill: Too Late?

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…

Misleading Army Recruits

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…

Concerns on GI Bill Changes

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…

Soldier Suicides Up Again

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…

How the Higher Ed Reauthorization Helps Veterans

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…

The VA’s Shocking Drug Experiments on Veterans

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…

Needed: More Doctors for Female VA Patients

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…