Maryland Vets: Jobs Wanted
Vets Back From War Face Shocking Reality
“If it weren’t for my daughter … I’d be one of those guys on the corner with a sign”—Maryland veteran.
When Andrew Smith III talked with his U.S. Marine Corps platoon mates in Iraq before he returned to Maryland in 2009, he recalled they agreed finding a job in a recession would be tough. But he said he never imagined it would be like this. Smith said he sleeps four hours a night to make time for his part-time job loading baggage for Delta Airlines, training classes in the afternoons and searching for a full-time job with benefits to support his wife and two kids without relying on food stamps and other assistance. But last week, during a job fair organized by the Maryland Department of Transportation for veterans in Baltimore, he was almost optimistic. “For a while, we as veterans feel like we were forgotten about,” said Smith, 29, of …
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12:49 pm on Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Parkville honey, i respectfully disagree with that post of yours blaming congress and not the president. It was the president that pushed the obamacare bill through a congress that willfully and gleefully obliged. I work in healthcare. Right now hospitals all over the country will be dumping jobs before July, the beginning of a new fiscal year. Why? Because obamacare has taxes written into it … more ›