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The lower unemployment rates were true for all veteran subgroups, including post-9\/11 veterans, whose yearly average dropped to 4.5 percent last year from 5.1 percent in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between December and January, though, unemployment rose slightly for all veterans, in particular for post-9\/11 veterans and their Gulf War-era predecessors. 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