{"id":56719,"date":"2021-04-02T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/02\/more-veterans-finding-work-as-unemployment-rates-drop-again\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:10:31","slug":"more-veterans-finding-work-as-unemployment-rates-drop-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/education-transition\/2021\/04\/02\/more-veterans-finding-work-as-unemployment-rates-drop-again\/","title":{"rendered":"More veterans finding work as unemployment rates drop again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veterans unemployment in March reached its lowest level since the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2021\/03\/26\/veterans-families-may-need-to-get-covid-vaccine-boosters-later-this-year\/\" target=_blank>coronavirus pandemic<\/a> more than a year ago, but still remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/education-transition\/2021\/02\/05\/veterans-unemployment-rate-worsened-slightly-to-start-the-new-year\/\" target=_blank>significantly higher<\/a> than before the nationwide shutdowns and business restrictions began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, officials from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=_blank>Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> announced that unemployment among all veterans last month was at 5 percent, down from 5.5 percent in February and less than half of what it was in April 2020, right at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last spring, that number rose to 11.7 percent as civic and industry leaders shut down nearly all public gatherings and severely restricted non-emergency travel in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus across America. 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Here\u2019s how<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The changes are part of a multi-year effort to provide faster and easier access to GI Bill benefits.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite recent rollbacks of those restrictions and improvements in recent months in the unemployment estimates, more veterans remain looking for work now than they did before the pandemic. From April 2018 to February 2020, the veterans unemployment rate never rose above 4 percent, and fell as low as 2.3 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 5 percent rate translates into about 450,000 veterans nationwide looking for steady work. BLS officials said about 8.5 million veterans are in the workforce today, with nearly 10 million already past retirement age or unable to work due to injuries and illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq and Afghanistan War era veterans remain the hardest hit generational group of veterans looking for work, making up more than half of the unemployed group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in March, up slightly from the 5.9 percent rate in February. That group\u2019s figure rose as high as 13 percent in the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 6 percent in March, the 11th time the number has decreased month-to-month since peaking at 14.7 percent in April 2020. 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