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Our Promise to Veterans, and their Employers
The following blog is a cross-post of an op-ed that appreared in The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Secretary Solis gives remarks during a veterans event hosted by the Women's Bureau. An applicant walks...
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VRAP Reaches Important Milestone
Navy veteran Timothy Thompson Navy veteran Timothy Thompson was ready for a change. He had experience as an electronics technician in a submarine and with a private company, but after a job layoff,...
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Innovation and Reinvention on Display at America’s Community Colleges
Secretary Hilda Solis talks with Mike Schramm, a student at Monroe Community College's Applied Technologies Center in Rochester, NY during her visit on September 24, 2012. Last month, I announced $500...
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Veterans Day 2012: Honoring Heroic Sacrifice
Secretary Solis speaks at an event in honor of our veterans. On Monday, America will celebrate the sacrifices of the men and women who’ve served their country in the armed forces. I strongly believe...
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America’s Heroes at Work: Tools for Hiring Veterans
Richard Nero During Richard Nero’s second combat tour in Iraq, an insurgent missile brought down the transport plane that was carrying him. It was a terrifyingly close call with death, and amazingly,...
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A Voice for Women Veterans
Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the swearing-in ceremony for Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a congresswoman from Illinois. As a helicopter pilot who served in Iraq, she lost both her legs and the...
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Combat Veteran Presents His Vision for Leading VETS
Sergeant Keith Kelly in Vietnam During the Vietnam War, I served with the 101st Airborne Division as the sergeant in charge of an infantry squad and later a platoon. We operated in the field with...
View ArticleThe Family and Medical Leave Act: Then, Now and Next
(Editor’s note: This is a cross-post from the Huffington Post Business blog.) Twenty years ago, the critics of job-protected family and medical leave were loud . . . and wrong: “A disincentive to...
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Serving Veterans: Our Duty, Our Honor
No others are owed a greater measure of gratitude for our rights and freedoms than the men and women who answer the call to serve in our armed forces. That is why the Labor Department works to help...
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A Fast Track to Civilian Employment
There is no better way to honor veterans’ service than by hiring them. Yet despite immense training and valuable, battle-tested leadership experience, veterans often face difficulties in obtaining...
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2012 Veterans Employment Report Reveals Positive Signs
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the “Employment Situation of Veterans – 2012,” a report that shows promising signs that post-9/11 veterans are finding and keeping jobs in larger numbers...
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Supporting Our Service Women
The service of women in American war efforts is older than our nation itself. Women served as battlefield nurses, cannon loaders, spies and more during the American Revolution. Through two World Wars,...
View ArticleThe DOL Budget: Investing in Workers, Skills and a Thriving Middle Class
Eight weeks ago, in his State of the Union address, President Obama described his North Star: a thriving middle class with ladders of opportunity for everyone willing to work to get there. He posed...
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No Limits for Wounded Veterans
Earlier this month, I had the honor of attending the Opening Ceremonies of the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Warrior Games are an annual event in which injured, ill or disabled veterans...
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The 1940s: The “Greatest Generation” Workforce Mobilizes for War
I’m a firm believer that understanding the past means more than memorizing dates, but there’s a handful any serious student of American history should be able to recite. Without a doubt, one of them...
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Delivering on “Thanks for Your Service”
Like many Americans, I’ll celebrate Thanksgiving next week by taking stock of my many blessings: friends, family and the freedom to pursue my life and career goals. So I find it most apropos that...
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu accepts a special recognition award from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities Nov. 19, 2013. (Photo courtesy of Denny Henry and AUCD) Last week, the U.S....
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An Ordinary, Extraordinary Day
Karla wrote for her daughter, a high school student with cerebral palsy who, her mom points out, “will be as qualified as anyone else” when she enters the workforce. Gerald wrote to make sure we didn’t...
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Veterans Front and Center at Fort Campbell
I had the great pleasure and honor of visiting with our transitioning service members on Wednesday at a jobs summit in Fort Campbell, Ky., where the White House’s Joining Forces initiative, led by...
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Earlier this month, I had the honor of attending the Opening Ceremonies of the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Warrior Games are an annual event in which injured, ill or disabled veterans...
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