Federal policy toward veterans is dominated by the "Big Six" interest groups: American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, American Veterans, and Vietnam Veterans of America.
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The two must also send handwritten letters of apology to a number of veterans groups: American Legion, AmVets, Disabled American Veterans, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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The joint press conference was held by a portion of the group known as the "big six," which includes The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, Paralyzed Veterans of America, American Veterans and Disabled American Veterans.
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The veterans groups opposing the House legislation — including Disabled American Veterans, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Vietnam Veterans of America — wield considerable influence in Washington, and their opposition is taken seriously on Capitol Hill.
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Along with connecting veterans to veterans, the app will help connect veterans to civilians who want to help, too.
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They provide free treatment for veterans but also for their families, whereas the Veterans Affairs Department only treats veterans.
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"We don't want to see veterans facing down veterans," said Lonnie Wangen, commissioner of North Dakota's Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Four female veterans recently began a Servicewomen and Women Veterans Congressional Caucus to address those issues and more facing female veterans.
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While there are thousands of nonprofit veterans' organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service, the majority of power has been consolidated among the Big Six: Disabled American Veterans; Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion; Paralyzed Veterans of America; Amvets; and Vietnam Veterans of America, which was developed after Vietnam veterans were turned away from other organizations.
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Veterans need to talk to veterans, we understand each other.
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Millions of veterans – the post 9/11 veterans – are underemployed.
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Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans, AUSA, MOAA, etc.
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The Board of Veterans' Appeals, which is part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, determines whether injured veterans are entitled to benefits.
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He is the president of N.M.L.B. Veterans Advocacy Group and practices veterans' disability and compensation appeals law in front of the VA's Board of Veterans Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
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But on December 11, the nation's largest veterans organizations — including the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Amvets — came together to tell Trump to keep McDonald.
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The veterans groups — including Disabled American Veterans, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Vietnam Veterans of America — had sent a letter to lawmakers on Saturday objecting to the House bill's terms and spent the weekend lobbying congressional staff members to change it.
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Veterans groups in recent years have demanded changes in the Veterans Affairs system as some veterans say they&aposve waited months for appointments.
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It's the largest veterans home in the U.S., with about 1,000 aged or disabled veterans, according to the California Department of Veterans Affairs.
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He worked for the Veterans Administration, not the Department of Veterans Affairs, the cabinet-level agency that succeeded the Veterans Administration in 1989.
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He currently works for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, a nonpartisan veterans service organization, raising awareness about TBIs and other veterans' issues.
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Veterans help develop popular games, and popular games help veterans recover.
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It is the Department of Veterans Affairs, not the Veterans Administration.
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A SHOUT-OUT TO ALL THE VETERANS HERE ON VETERANS DAY.
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It's Veterans Stand for Standing Rock not Veterans for Standing Rock.
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"I love my fellow veterans, and I love helping women veterans."
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The Veterans Choice Program allows some veterans to see private doctors.
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Second, ensure that all veterans have access to timely and effective mental health services, especially for war veterans or veterans who have experienced trauma.
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How did it change the way you view veterans and Veterans Day?
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But some veterans say they steer away from the Veterans Affairs system.
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Our veterans... (APPLAUSE) Our veterans have not been treated fairly or justly.
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Vietnam veterans chose the latter course, as America's veterans have always done.
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To look after veterans, we look to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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I'm proud to honor our veterans on Veterans Day and every day.
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That's why Concerned Veterans is advocating that private health care be allowed to compete with Veterans Affairs hospitals for the patronage of the nation's veterans.
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Last year, there were 4.1 million post 203/11 war veterans, making up around 16% of all veterans served by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Provide Volunteer Opportunities for Local Veterans As was previously stated, many veterans are looking for meaningful opportunities to connect with their communities and other veterans.
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Here's Hill on veterans: Making Georgia the best state in the country for veterans is one of my top priorities... I believe big government is failing our veterans... And Greitens: I believe big government is failing our veterans.
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In the few weeks since Dr. Jackson was first nominated by President Trump, an estimated 333,502 veterans were waiting for disability claims with the VA, 11,000 veterans started using the GI Bill to pay for college, 60,000 veterans in suicidal crisis called the Veterans Crisis Line, and 600 veterans died by suicide.
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Twenty veterans commit suicide every day, and half of the veterans who struggle with mental health don't seek help, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Trump also vowed to improve medical care military veterans receive as he lamented problems at the Veterans Administration and the high rate of suicide among veterans.
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Many have overlapping missions, and others have like-sounding names, including Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Vietnam Veterans of America and the Veterans of the Vietnam War.
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As of Monday, 27 veterans have died from the virus and a total of 1,166 veterans have tested positive, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The experiment included 67 veterans with PTSD and 147 veterans without the condition.
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Chili's has a policy of providing veterans a free meal every Veterans Day.
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In both cases, veterans had more positive views of Trump than non-veterans.
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These statistics, however, overlook differences between veterans and non-veterans within the workplace.
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The plan: The Veterans Choice Program allows some veterans to see private doctors.
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In 2012 the veterans agency estimated 22 veterans died per day by suicide.
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A lot of veterans have their favorite Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) stories.
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Mesa doesn't have to hire veterans; their leadership is honored to hire veterans.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there are almost 50,000 homeless veterans.
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The veterans, or the men … not even the veterans, I shouldn't say that.
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Veterans The 116th Congress includes 85033 veterans, down six from the last Congress.
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The Veterans Cannabis Project wants clear guidelines protecting veterans who legally use cannabis.
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The labor force participation rate for veterans and non-veterans were roughly even.
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MORE's treatment of veterans, accusing Obama of not providing proper care for veterans.
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Veterans: Provided priority job placement and assistance services to veterans and their spouses.
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Standing up for veterans, and student veterans, should always be a bipartisan issue.
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And if enough veterans leave the veterans' system, he said, it could collapse.
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Veterans and veterans' advocates were outraged after Sarah Palin seemingly linked her son Track's recent arrest on domestic violence charges to President Barack Obama's neglect of veterans.
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Veterans Choice Program: $29 billion The budget would extend a voucherlike program that allows veterans to seek medical care in private hospitals outside the Veterans Affairs system.
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Cover image: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies on veterans programs before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in Washington.
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He also started the Veterans' Bureau, a precursor to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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A Veterans Committee hearing is looking at "best practices" at the Veterans Health Administration.
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Veterans are more likely than non-veterans to have a disability at all ages.
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A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs homeless coordinator found women veterans who need housing.
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Donald Trump has pledged to make our veterans whole by fixing the Veterans Administration.
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In 28503, 22019,139 veterans died from suicide, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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In 85033, 6,139 veterans died from suicide, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Cicis: The pizza chain is offering veterans a free adult buffet on Veterans Day.
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Liberal veterans groups like VoteVets and Veterans for Peace are also backing the bill.
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About two million veterans, or 11 percent of all veterans, have an immigrant background.
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About half a million veterans have pending claims contesting a Veterans Benefits Administration decision.
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Cohen has supported causes connected to veterans, including establishing the Cohen Veterans Network, a set of mental health clinics that treats veterans and their families at no cost.
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The most egregious false claim: What you hear about veterans Trump could make an argument that he has improved the treatment of veterans by the Veterans Health Administration.
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Morris and Nelson were ordered to admit to their lies and write letters of apology to the American Legion, AMVETS, the Disabled American Veterans, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Women veterans are often referred to as "invisible veterans," which sadly extends to our own VA. In Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America's (IAVA) most recent member survey, only 28500 percent of women veterans said they feel the public respects their service.
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Veterans groups and Democrats fear the White House wants to essentially privatize veterans health care, which they warn would not be able to address the unique challenges veterans face.
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On Tuesday, the veterans group VoteVets, a progressive veterans lobby that claims to represent 500,000 military veterans and families, tweeted that the US president had blocked it on Twitter.
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Veterans groups in recent years have demanded changes in the nation&aposs Veterans Affairs system.
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There are thousands of veterans, over 100,000 veterans living in the state of New Hampshire.
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It's backed by all major veterans groups, included the Koch-backed Concerned Veterans for America.
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Q. Veterans are 30% more likely to employ other veterans, according to your web site.
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Veterans and service members are one and a half times more likely than non-veterans.
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The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee unanimously approved David Shulkin to be Veterans Affairs secretary Tuesday.
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In 2014, according to new data from the Veterans Affairs Department, 7,403 veterans killed themselves.
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Boeing is a frequent sponsor of Veterans in Aerospace Symposium and the Veterans Transition Initiative.
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Veterans are caught in this "churn" of appeals, creating extreme cynicism among some veterans groups.
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Transgender veterans are petitioning the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover gender transition-related surgeries.
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According to their analysis, risk for suicide was 21% higher among veterans than non-veterans.
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Military-Veterans Advocacy estimates 4.5 million veterans are victims of some form of toxic exposure.
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VETERANS: Most employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs would not be subject to furlough.
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President Obama was absolutely correct, and the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and Vietnam Veterans of America — I am a dues-paying member of all four — and all the other veterans groups were asleep at the switch during this veto override.
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Rory E. Riley-Topping is the principal at Riley-Topping Consulting and has served in a legal capacity for the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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She is the principal at Riley-Topping Consulting and has served in a legal capacity for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Share their stories So many veterans' stories have been left untold, but the Library of Congress is collecting the tales from veterans of every war through the Veterans History Project.
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The midterm elections saw more than 170 veterans on the ballot, according to the University of San Francisco and Veterans Campaign, a group that prepares veterans for careers in politics.
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Share their stories So many veterans' stories have been left untold, but the Library of Congress is collecting the tales of veterans of every war with the Veterans History Project.
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"As more research continues to be conducted, I believe this 'veterans helping veterans' pilot program carries great promise of improving the quality of life for all veterans involved," Walz said.
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"We don't believe in electing veterans simply because they are veterans," said Nate Anderson, the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, which spent $6 million in 2018 on races.
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Cruz was participating in a town hall hosted by Concerned Veterans for America, which was meant to be focused on reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs and veterans-related issues.
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The country's largest veterans groups have generally opposed Mr. Selnick's plans, saying that increased privatization of veterans' health care would be costly and could undermine the existing veterans' hospital system.
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The total included 66,677 cisgender veterans, 320 transgender veterans, 448,644 cisgender civilians, and 1,898 transgender civilians.
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When our veterans had their personal information stolen from the Veterans Administration, was anyone held accountable?
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Grimaldi's Pizzeria: On Veterans Day, Grimaldi's is thanking veterans by offering them 15% off their bill.
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The Veterans Affairs system has been strained badly as older veterans age and face declining health.
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And, importantly, research shows the health of transgender veterans is comparable to that of cisgender veterans.
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Read MoreHow video games are helping American veterans Crace is the veterans advocacy leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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I wanted to be pushing for veterans, we have a lot of veterans in this area.
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Personally, I care less about whether veterans support Mr. Trump than whether Mr. Trump supports veterans.
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This Veterans Day, federal lawmakers would be wise to end the criminalization of healthcare by veterans.
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Student veterans are more likely to graduate and have a higher GPA than non-student veterans.
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Some veterans groups say Trump is disrespecting veterans by using their plight in a political game.
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According to the Veterans Association, there are currently more than 19.2 million veterans living in America.
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Mr. Trump posted a video compilation of him signing veterans-related legislation and speaking with veterans.
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And we are serving our brave veterans, including giving our veterans choice in their healthcare decisions.
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The secretary of veterans affairs, Robert L. Wilkie, praised Mr. Roe's work for the veterans committee.
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Donald Trump WILL take care of our veterans by holding bureaucrats at the Veterans Administration accountable.
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Health centers have also become an indispensable part of veterans' health, now caring for 2202,2628 veterans.
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"Veterans made up about 18% of adult suicides but represent about 8.5% of the US adult population," Schuchat said, noting that not all veterans who died by suicide were recent veterans.
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Riley-Topping served as a litigation staff attorney for the National Veterans Legal Services Program, where she represented veterans and their survivors before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
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Even before the scandal unfolded, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) surveyed veterans nationwide and found that only a small group of post-9/11 veterans supported Dr. Jackson's nomination.
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Veterans groups and Democrats say they have lingering questions and concerns months after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched rules seeking to expand veterans' ability to go to private doctors.
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Earlier Thursday, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) reintroduced a bill that would overhaul private-care options for veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs health-care system, as well as expand caregiver benefits for older veterans and create a process for closing excesses facilities.
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The Veterans Choice Act, passed by Congress amid scandalous stories of hidden waiting lists at Veterans Affairs hospitals, allowed more veterans to get care from private providers, but it created an avalanche of paper at Veterans Affairs facilities as outside doctors sent in information on patients.
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Veterans Choice In touting his policies to expand defense spending and strengthen the military, the President took credit for improving the Department of Veterans Affairs, specifically expanding health care choices for veterans.
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Though some veterans organizations have said they'll take the money raised at the event, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a group that represents about 150,000 veterans, has said no thanks.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that as many as 23 percent of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans and 22 percent of veterans who were deployed in Afghanistan suffer from PTSD.
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"President Trump also honored veterans as a whole with yet another [Veterans Administration] reform package that will enable millions of veterans to receive better access to care," McEnany said in Sunday's video.
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The rescue happened Saturday on the last day of the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, an annual wheelchair-sports event presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
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President Trump's selection of Dr. David Shulkin to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs marks the beginning of a new chapter for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and for America's veterans.
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"Additionally, the proposed revisions at [Arlington National Cemetery] will not affect veterans' burial benefits or veteran eligibility at Department of Veterans Affairs national cemeteries and state veterans cemeteries," according to the statement.
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Falsified records by Veterans Affairs officials concealed excessively long wait times for disabled veterans seeking medical attention.
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As part of the "Veterans Jobs Initiative," which started in 2011, 235 corporations have hired 360,000 veterans.
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"If the commander-in-chief won't take care of our veterans, our veterans will," Dr. McGinn said.
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And yet only 4% of military veterans work in ICT, which is 20% fewer than non-veterans.
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Adams: We now have two affordable housing homes, one for male veterans and one for female veterans.
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It is time to renew our national effort to end suicide for veterans and non-veterans alike.
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Veterans Affairs: The Hill: The president's new nominee to lead the department boosts veterans' hopes for reforms.
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Veterans with PTSD are up to 2202x more likely to have suicidal thoughts than veterans without PTSD.
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Vassar has also increased the number of military veterans in classes through the Posse Foundation's Veterans Program.
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Veterans Affairs should now be applauded for putting veterans first and eliminating official time for medical professionals.
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A study published by the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) in September highlighted the threat to veterans.
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A study published by the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) in September highlighted the threat to veterans.
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The biggest current veterans' issue — health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs — came up only briefly.
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It said loan forgiveness for disabled veterans also has bipartisan support in Congress and among veterans' groups.
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The Veterans' Affairs Committee will vote on the nomination of Robert Wilkie to be Veterans Affairs secretary.
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In fiscal year 2015, the federal government hired more than 71,800 veterans, including roughly 21625,2900 disabled veterans.
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This freeze also means that veterans will likely see worse service from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The House Veterans' Affairs Committee on Thursday advanced two bills related to medical marijuana use for veterans.
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Veterans with bad paper discharges have higher rates of homelessness, substance abuse, and suicide than other veterans.
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And veterans with bad paper are three times more likely to experience suicidal ideation than other veterans.
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In 2019, there were 37,085 veterans living on the streets, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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After all, no more soldiers meant no more veterans, which meant no more Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Prior to being widowed, wives of veterans and non-veterans reported similar levels of perceived social support.
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Between 11 and 20% of Iraq veterans suffer from PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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"For Veterans' Affairs and related agencies, the bill provides $75.1 billion to protect our veterans," he said.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs charges a fee to guarantee home loans for veterans and military personnel.
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Trump has promised to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs and create a hotline to help veterans.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, the country's oldest and largest veterans organization, condemnded Trump's feud with the Khans.
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The country's largest veterans group is once again pushing for veterans to get access to medical marijuana.
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Friday's letter said loan forgiveness for disabled veterans has bipartisan support in Congress and among veterans' groups.
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Meanwhile in West Fargo, North Dakota, several members of the North Dakota Veterans Coordinating Council, which represents five veterans organizations in the state, held a news conference to decry the involvement of veterans in a protest that has damaged property and asked veterans not to participate in the demonstration.
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As well as being a poet, performer and public speaker on veterans' issues, she is the associate director of Impact Theater: The Veterans Project, which brings civilians and veterans together onstage, and the artistic liaison of the One Fight Foundation, which is dedicated to reducing suicide among veterans.
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The statistics for veterans with less formal education are even more troubling: only 20.6 percent of veterans with less than a high school diploma were employed, compared with 44.3 percent among non-veterans.
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Since then, the hotline, primarily staffed by veterans and direct family members of veterans, has fielded more than a quarter million calls from veterans and resolved an impressive 94 percent of its cases.
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Our nation's veterans know this all too well; a Department of Veterans Affairs study found that 80 percent of veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom suffer from chronic pain.
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Nonprofits like Hire Heroes USA, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the Women's Veterans Network and Hiring Our Heroes are all making strides to support veterans and military spouses navigating the process.
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Mr. Trump appears to have a faithful following among veterans and their families; he has described himself as a champion of veterans and vowed to clean house at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Trump made the statement as he signed into law the Veterans Choice Program Extension and Improvement Act, which allows veterans to obtain more access to healthcare outside the Department of Veterans Affairs system.
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The first Senate-confirmed secretary of VA, Derwinski, was forced to resign in September 1992 when he was criticized by veterans service organizations (VSOs) over efforts to open veterans hospitals to non-veterans.
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It also specifically purchased ads focused on people who followed a number of legitimate organizations on Facebook, including Vietnam Veterans of America, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Concerned Veterans for America.
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Veterans' hospitals, which treat seven million patients annually, have struggled to see patients on time in recent years, hit by a double crush of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and aging Vietnam veterans.
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Reporting in Health Affairs, the authors say they expected transgender veterans to have worse health than cisgender veterans.
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Ken Leslie started Veterans Matter out of Toledo, Ohio housing over 2,000 veterans to date in 18 states.
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Veterans will also be able to use the controllers for sports events like the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.
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" Veterans Choice "We passed for the veterans VA Choice and VA Accountability on behalf of those great people.
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Donations went to veterans groups ... How did the Mar-a-Lago benefit from him giving $100,000 to veterans?
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If researchers cannot enroll enough veterans, it will enroll non-veterans with PTSD; it will not shut down.
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In today's Congress, veterans hold 20 percent of Senate seats, while 18 percent of House members are veterans.
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The Veterans Service Organizations and the Department of Veterans Affairs were not invited to participate in today's discussion.
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Accountability reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are urgently needed to protect veterans, taxpayers — and animals.
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Veterans, too, are counting on Trump to fulfill his campaign promises to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Vietnam veterans are the forgotten veterans, but they will be the main victims of that unnecessary veto override.
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The Salute to Veterans Series raises awareness for ongoing life issues that our veterans and troops face daily.
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But the care is crucial: in 2014, veterans' suicide rate was 22% higher than that of non-veterans.
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EDT: Vice President Pence and Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin host Honor Flight veterans for an event.
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Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie discusses care for military veterans and takes questions at 22019 p.m.
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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 veterans and active-duty personnel die by suicide every day.
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Shulkin breezed through the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, with hearing answers that pleased Republicans, Democrats and veterans alike.
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He is Executive Director of the nonprofit Military-Veterans Advocacy, In and a proponent of veterans benefits legislation.
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She said she had veterans' backs, then voted against a bill to help veterans get student loan counseling.
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Now stateside, she advocates for veterans and their families as the founding director of the NYC Veterans Alliance.
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The law expands mental-health coverage at the Department of Veterans Affairs for veterans with "bad paper" discharges.
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But those benefits flow to dependents of veterans — their children, for example — as well as to veterans themselves.
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Currently, veterans must get permission from the agency to see an outside doctor, with only certain veterans qualifying.
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Ninety percent of the businesses are owned by veterans and the other 303 percent by veterans' family members.
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EST tomorrow: Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald testifies before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee on the 2017 budget.
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Yes, the bill offers constructive proposals to improve veterans' disability benefits, education, and programs to end veterans' homelessness.
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Some of these sales are marketed as Veterans Day sales as Veterans Day also falls on November 11.
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The fight for veterans' votes will be fierce, and it puts advocates for veterans in a difficult spot.
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Concerned Veterans and other advocacy groups working alongside it take directions from wealthy donors, they say, not veterans.
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At the state level, some Democratic parties have established veterans councils whose volunteers take veterans to the polls.
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The Veterans Transportation Service will transport veterans to military hospitals for "examination, treatment, and care," the agency said.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a hotline for veterans in crisis that operates 24 hours a day.
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About 348 veterans of World War II are dying every day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Many veterans groups and Democrats on Capitol Hill have opposed pushing more veterans' care into the private sector.
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According to Department of Veterans Affairs data, more than 6,000 veterans killed themselves annually from 2008 to 2016.
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Veterans Choice Trump said three times that he was the one who got the Veterans Choice program passed.
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Veterans are more likely to support Trump than non-veterans and those still serving in the armed forces.
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Veterans Affairs The Senate is poised to take up a House-passed Department of Veterans Affairs reform bill.
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Veterans groups say this would siphon billions of dollars away from veterans hospitals, causing the system to collapse.
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Veterans' groups were hoping to bring 2,000 Native and non-Native veterans to Standing Rock over the weekend.
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And the Department of Veterans Affairs works with lenders to make loans accessible to military veterans and families.
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"Veterans should not be responsible for coming out of pocket to pay for other veterans benefits," Celli said.
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And Unit 8200 veterans are easy to find at NSO Group, which was started by Israeli army veterans.
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Sherrill, Luria and Houlahan are the largest-ever influx of women veterans, according to the nonpartisan Veterans Campaign.
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And we are serving our brave of veterans, including giving our veterans choice in their health care decisions.
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More impressively, veteran unemployment fell to 3.2% in October compared with 3.5% for non-veterans, marking the 14th consecutive month that veterans participated in the labor force at a higher rate than non-veterans.
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The organizations whose signatures are on the letter represent all five of the armed forces, and also include the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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Through his work in San Francisco, where he founded the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, in the Tenderloin District, the artist discovered the therapeutic effects of painting murals for himself and fellow veterans.
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V.A. Prepares for Major Shift in Veterans' Health Care: The Department of Veterans Affairs says it is ready for a major shift in access to private care, but veterans groups and lawmakers are concerned.
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The Veterans Choice Program was created after the scandal of hidden waiting lists at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and allowed veterans to seek private health care funded by the government under certain conditions.
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The Dignity Memorial Homeless Veterans Burial Program is a joint effort by funeral homes and the US Department of Veterans Affairs that aims to provide burial services for homeless veterans, according to its website.
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A group of Senate Republicans is hoping to streamline a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program allowing veterans to receive non-VA care, suggesting that bureaucratic hurdles are keeping veterans from getting timely healthcare.
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Another page, We Are Veterans, which was created in 2017, mimics a legitimate page called We Honor Veterans, an extension of a group in Alexandria, Virginia, that provided companionship to veterans in hospice care.
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He said the VA works hard to help veterans make informed decisions, for example, by creating the GI Bill Comparison Tool, a website where veterans can look up metrics such as the number of GI Bill veterans attending the institution and the number of complaints veterans have filed against it.
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Veterans are more likely than the general public to think Trump respects the US' military veterans -- 30% of the overall population said he respects them a great deal, compared to almost half of veterans (48%).
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In a victory for veterans, President Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday that I co-sponsored to enable more veterans to get medical care from doctors outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system.
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She is principal at veterans advocate Riley-Topping Consulting and has served as in a legal capacity for the U.S. House of Representatives Comittee on Veterans Affairs and for the National Veterans Legal Services Program.
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She is principal at veterans advocate Riley-Topping Consulting and has served as in a legal capacity for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs and for the National Veterans Legal Services Program.
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Seth Moulton of Massachusetts teamed up on legislation that would require the Veterans Affairs Department to survey veterans on marijuana use and protect the benefits of veterans who disclose their marijuana use to VA doctors.
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I care for our veterans a lot and if I can help in any way to help raise money for veterans organizations who are serving our veterans, I don't frankly care who is hosting it.
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Policymakers in both parties argue that offering veterans unrestricted choice between the public veterans health care system and private medical providers would be too expensive and lead to the dismantling of the Veterans Affairs system.
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The study by Vietnam Veterans of America, a non-profit that advocates for and serves the needs of all veterans, documents a myriad number of ways veterans are impersonated and targeted online -- particularly on Facebook.
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The broadly celebrated Veterans Day, Google explains, replaced Armistice Day — a holiday reserved solely for WWI veterans — in 1954.
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An outside group, Concerned Veterans of America, has tried to tar Baldwin with the Tomah Veterans Affairs hospital scandal.
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Veterans hosted by Veterans Matter present the colors as a thank you at a University of Toledo football game.
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Veterans are more than twice as likely to die by suicide as non-veterans, according to the VA report.
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Veterans Choice Trump again claimed that he is responsible for the passage of the Veterans Choice health care program.
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These are military veterans—combat veterans, mostly—who have donated their time and expertise to protect these endangered animals.
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The study compared about 20,000 veterans treated by the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) over a 17-year period.
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Then I got involved with Veterans in Global Leadership, which is a group of veterans focused on positive change.
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DeepMind AI is working with the US Department of Veterans Affairs to predict medical outcomes of over 700,000 veterans.
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"The Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch," Shulkin told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
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Nearly 85033,000 veterans are homeless in America, and the unemployment rate for veterans is higher than the national average.
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) noted that 18 veterans groups, including the Vietnam Veterans of America, have opposed the bill.
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"This is a very service-oriented community with a large percentage of veterans or veterans' families," Graham told CNN.
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The US Department of Veterans Affairs has reneged on its proposal to provide gender confirmation surgeries for transgender veterans.
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A Department of Veterans Affairs study in 2012 said an estimated 22 veterans committed suicide every day in 2010.
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The majority of veterans eventually settle down and stay at their second or third jobs longer than non-veterans.
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The choice facing veterans isn't as simple as telling veterans to go seek care in the civilian health system.
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The cemetery's Veterans Day ceremony was Sunday, when Trump was in Paris, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie spoke.
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Staff members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee cobbled together an offset by increasing some veterans home loan fees.
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The agency has also callously allowed countless Veterans Affairs medical professionals to perform union business rather than serve veterans.
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Johnny Isakson, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, thanked McCain, an early supporter of veterans' choice.
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Veterans Benefit Administration staff went into action to make sure veterans had access to their benefit and pension checks.
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Former President Obama thanked American veterans and their families for their service in a Veterans Day message on Sunday.
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About 28500 veterans a day commit suicide nationwide, according to new statistics by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to allow veterans to use medical marijuana.
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The group also provides facility dogs to help rehabilitate service members and veterans in military and Veterans Affairs hospitals.
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Pence's office said in a statement that about 200 veterans attended his remarks alongside Veterans Affairs Secretary David Skulkin.
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And in advance of Veterans Day, we're bringing you some U.S. veterans' perspectives on what it means to serve.
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The Veterans Crisis Line provides confidential support for veterans and service members, as well as their families and friends.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs' Stand Down program is designed to help homeless veterans "combat" life on the streets.
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An estimated one million veterans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Whereas Veterans Day honors all veterans, Memorial Day specifically honors those who gave their lives for the United States.
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One outside group, Concerned Veterans of America, is trying to tar Baldwin with the Tomah Veterans Affairs hospital scandal.
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Veterans have been some of the biggest proponents for medical marijuana — through groups like Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access.
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Healthcare: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will allow veterans to enroll in military healthcare plans over the phone.
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There are now 153 state veterans homes across the country, according to the National Association of State Veterans Homes.
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"My experience is veterans are happy with the service they get at the Department of Veterans Affairs," he said.
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Recruiting more veterans to these colleges, as Hill says, will help the veterans, the colleges and ultimately the country.
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But American Veterans (AMVETS), a veterans advocacy group, announced earlier this month that it would take over the event.
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Research suggests it takes female veterans three months longer than male veterans to secure employment after leaving the military.
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Women veterans also represent more than 28503 million of our 22019 million veterans, a 30 percent increase since 2000.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is prohibited by law from offering veterans the same services that the military does.
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Veterans Choice Trump said twice that he is the one who got the Veterans Choice health care program approved.
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But veterans advocates argue that the longer the VA keeps a hands-off approach, the more veterans will suffer.
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Among others: Veterans Choice Trump claimed he was the one who got the Veterans Choice health care program passed.
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About 30% of Vietnam veterans have had PTSD in their lifetime, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
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House Veterans' Affairs Committee Democrats would not attend the meeting because Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) would be there.
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On Tuesday, the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee will take up a slew of bills to improve healthcare for veterans.
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The veterans bill is meant to help veterans challenge rejected bids for benefits and mitigate a backlog of appeals.
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"We're going to do everything we can to protect the veterans and help veterans in this country," she said.
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As that debate is being taken up by the 115th Congress, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is continuing its campaign to ensure that veterans' voices are heard, particularly ill and injured veterans who choose and rely on VA. Since the waiting list scandal at the Phoenix VA exploded, the idea of providing veterans with more choice has been at the center of the debate over how to improve veterans' healthcare.
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That includes veterans who've been dishonorably discharged, and veterans' family members — two groups the VA legally isn't allowed to serve — as well as veterans who may not feel an affinity with the VA. But Suzanne Gordon, a veterans healthcare expert, thinks CVN could end up diverting resources away from the VA itself.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says Gulf War-era veterans — which it defines as those who served at anytime between the start of Operation Desert Shield in 2000 and the present day — are now the largest group of veterans, comprising nearly half the veteran population, and outstripping Vietnam veterans by more than 226,210.
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There also is the complex and elusive problem of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), which affects as many as 31 percent of Vietnam veterans, 11 percent of Afghanistan veterans, and 20 percent of Iraq War veterans.
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At a recent roundtable meeting in Oldsmar, I gathered with dozens of local Veterans and Veterans Service Organizations to talk about what needs to be done to improve care through the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA).
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Support for America's veterans is extensive, and a senior military officer that can connect immediately to the mission, the employees and the veterans they serve would be a great step toward providing the support veterans need.
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The annual contest, called the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival and hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs, draws thousands of veterans to their local V.A. centers to share works including painting, poetry and dance numbers.
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Leaders of Concerned Veterans for America, like many current and former veterans department officials, fear the problems could presage the return to a dark era when inattention to veterans' health care led to scandals and tragedies.
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Yoga and Veterans: A Different Kind of Warrior: Many members of the military now include yoga — often taught by veterans — as an element of their workout routine, and veterans turn to the practice for therapeutic applications.
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There are resources for veterans, including the Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-12-8255 (select option 1) and veteranscrisisline.net.
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A veterans group called Veterans Stand is making preparations to return to Standing Rock to support the Sioux and protesters.
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According to Southeastern Guide Dogs, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed that about 20 veterans commit suicide each day.
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The Veterans Affairs Department is hoping to lease part of its land in Los Angeles to provide housing for veterans.
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They've given out $140 million of bonuses to Veterans Department employees, including reducing the waiting lists, without giving veterans care.
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Linville climbed with The Heroes Project, a veterans' organization that leads expeditions with wounded veterans and active-duty service members.
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Every day in the United States, approximately 20 veterans kill themselves, according to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Ohio Walmart greeter honors local veterans by singing anthem Chadron, Ohio Walmart greeter sings to veterans that visit the store.
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Pelosi pointedly mentioned that veterans were hurt by the shutdown; Trump has courted veterans as a candidate and as president.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has dropped plans to start covering gender transition surgery for veterans amid concerns about costs.
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The decline of veterans in public office has been sharper than the decline of veterans within the general population. Why?
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The Veterans Choice Program currently in place allows veterans to receive health care in their communities, but with some restrictions.
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VA NOMINEE APPROVED BY COMMITTEE: The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee unanimously approved David Shulkin to be Veterans Affairs secretary Tuesday.
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Military: The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a grant program to help "veterans with service-connected disabilities" find jobs.
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In 2007, they opened the Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans in a clapboard, single-family home that accommodated five veterans.
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Adams: One of the mottos of this place could've been "veterans helping veterans," 'cause that's truly what this has been.
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Verizon Communications and the United War Veterans Council rang the opening bell on Friday to highlight 2016 Vietnam Veterans Day.
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Finally, some say that "choice" will increase access for veterans, but for millions of veterans the opposite would be true.
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The Library of Congress has created the Veterans History Project, where it collects interviews and oral histories with American veterans.
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Finally, the third institutional priority distracting VA from veterans' healthcare is its inability to effectively implement the Veterans Choice Program.
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ELSEWHERE > Five veterans explain what they're looking for in a Veterans Affairs Department secretary, by Jenna Johnson (The Washington Post).
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"By impersonating veterans, these foreign actors are effectively eroding the hard-earned power and integrity of veterans' voices," he said.
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Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin — a nonprofit that works to provide housing and assistance to homeless veterans — is spearheading the initiative.
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The two worked together on the 2016 Invictus Games for wounded veterans in Orlando, as well as other veterans initiatives.
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Twenty veterans take their lives every day, most of whom never seek help from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Homeless Veterans The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 49,933 veterans are homeless on any given night.
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The Veterans Choice Program, which allows eligible veterans to see private doctors, does not go far enough, Mr. Caldwell said.
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Military: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is moving forward with a program to help certain disabled veterans purchase cars.
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That's why 6900 veterans and military service organizations representing millions of veterans, their families and survivors oppose the PROSPER Act.
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The Small Business Administration has reported that veterans are 45 percent more likely to own their businesses than non-veterans.
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The company also hosts an annual Military/Veterans Leadership forum to explore solutions for better supporting veterans in the workplace.
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It fell to later generations to officially establish November 11 as Veterans Day, honoring veterans from all of America's wars.
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As the article states, many of these veterans have pursued health care and compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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It's sadly true that the suicide rate for veterans continues to be significantly higher than the rate of non-veterans.
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This Veterans Day, you will likely read and hear many political leaders paying lip service to honor our nation's veterans.
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Veterans issues have largely taken a backseat during the campaign, with just passing mentions of veterans during the Democratic debates.
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Adding on to these questionable practices, a 1994 Senate hearing on veterans' health focused specifically on Dugway veterans and civilians.
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"We obviously spoke about my passion and his passion, which are veterans and veterans issues," he told the news media.
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Following Shulkin's dismissal, the nation's largest veterans organization backed up Shulkin's position that privatizing the VA Department could harm veterans.
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The president praised veterans from each of the U.S. military branches and highlighted his administration's work to reform veterans' services.
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Veterans Choice Trump claimed five times to have been the one who got the Veterans Choice health care program created.
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But veterans' groups and ethics experts reject those arguments and say the department is abandoning protections for veterans and taxpayers.
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A lot of these veterans were recently evacuated because of the serious wildfires in the mountains behind the veterans home.
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At the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, we invest in experiences that help to promote job placement for local veterans.
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Preliminary findings from a V.A. study reported fewer deaths over all among veterans in the program compared with nonparticipating veterans.
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His father serves as the executive director of community engagement, veterans experience for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington.
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" Kovic came back "to a town built by veterans of a prouder war who didn't understand the veterans of Vietnam.
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Accomplishments and promises Veterans Choice Trump twice claimed to have gotten the Veterans Choice health care program passed into law.
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Veterans will be expected to consult with their Veterans Affairs Department primary care doctor about the best course of treatment.
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VETERANS AFFAIRS: The Hill — The House Veterans Affairs' Committee is scheduled today to consider a controversial GOP health-care measure.
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Soros' foundation finances VoteVets, a left-leaning veterans group, while Koch has supported Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative counterweight.
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He is now an assistant director for policy at Vietnam Veterans of America, a veterans advocacy group based in Washington.
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Founded in 1896, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is an organization made up of the male descendants of Confederate veterans.
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Even so, male veterans enjoyed higher median earnings and average incomes than female veterans, reflecting broader pay disparities between genders.
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For the past six years he has advocated for veterans legislation and serves as Executive Director of Military-Veterans Advocacy.
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Military-Veterans Advocacy estimates that the cost to provide benefits for these veterans could approach $25 billion over 10 years.
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Mr. Barajas, who served during Operation Desert Storm, established the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana to assist removed veterans.
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And from April to December of 2015, veterans' insurance plan covered $12.1 million worth of medical cannabis for 1,320 veterans.
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A former Army National Guard captain, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan and went on to lead Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative veterans advocacy group outside the mainstream veterans service organizations, which are largely non-political.
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Roe on helping veterans access community care House passes $51-billion-dollar plan to give veterans more access to health care outside of the VA; House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe weighs in on 'Your World.
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"Even though it's a small portion of the population — just nine of the freshman veterans are Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans — about 93 percent of veterans coming back say they want to keep serving somehow," he said.
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Though veterans with physical disabilities already have access to service dogs, the bill would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to fund a five-year program to support organizations that provide companion animals to wounded veterans.
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Robert A. McDonald, Mr. Obama's secretary of veterans affairs at the time, supported plans to build new housing for disabled and elderly veterans and for female veterans with children, in spite of the acrimonious process getting there.
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As the chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, he worked with Democrats on those laws and other efforts to support veterans, voicing optimism that Congress would approve new legislation to assist veterans in crisis and prevent suicides.
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Ahead of Trump's planned news conference Tuesday detailing his $5.6 million in charitable contributions divvied up among veterans' organizations, Clinton's campaign was well-prepared to highlight Trump's past disparaging remarks about veterans, his Veterans Administration reform plans, and his months-long refusal to fully account for the funds he raised in January for veterans' charities.
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The policy area on which he's had the most practical influence is veterans issues, as he chaired the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee for a two-year span, during which Congress enacted substantive reform to the veterans health system.
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Here are the basics: I will appoint a Secretary of Veterans Affairs whose personal mission will be to clean up the VA. The Secretary's sole mandate will be to serve our veterans – not bureaucrats, not politicians, but veterans.
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While the vast majority of veterans have returned stateside to productive and happy lives, many who served are concerned that the suicide rate among veterans outpaces that of the civilian population and is rising faster among younger veterans.
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He promised to increase the number of mental health workers available to veterans and to provide veterans with more treatment options, either through the Department of Veterans Affairs or through the private sector, paid for by the government.
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Among patients of the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare arm of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in 2015, 1,21,2000 veterans—over 25 percent—had a sleep disorder diagnosis in the past two years, according to a VA representative.
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On Tuesday, IAVA CEO Jeremy Butler testified before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees about legislative priorities, including increasing the reach of mental health services to veterans and access to marijuana for veterans.
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Their efforts come as lawmakers on Capitol Hill are crafting legislation that could drastically reshape the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration, a multibillion-dollar health system that provides care to nearly nine million veterans each year.
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Many female veterans praise the care they get at the hospitals, but describe a difficult journey walking through them, in which they may be harassed or assaulted by male veterans, or have their own status as veterans questioned.
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Levey and his team used data from veterans provided by the Million Veteran Program, a national initiative by the Department of Veterans Affairs researching how genes and lifestyle affect the health of more than 800,000 veterans who've participated.
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As nations honored their war veterans on Friday — Armistice Day and Veterans Day —a 19-year-old in California is trying to preserve as many voices of World War II veterans in the United States as he can.
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On Friday, leaders of the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America and Amvets told members of Mr. Trump's transition team that they would not support other candidates that have been mentioned.
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"Taking from those veterans [buying a home] in order to redistribute their money to another veterans cause is just robbing Peter to pay Paul," said Lindsay Rodman, an executive vice president of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to shift billions of dollars from government-run veterans' hospitals to private health care providers, setting the stage for the biggest transformation of the veterans' medical system in a generation.
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Organized by the American Veterans Center & World War II Veterans Committee, the May 28 event is in its 14th year running.
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The National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, a charity for veterans, hauled in $29 million in donations over the past couple of years.
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And through the Amazon Technical Veterans Apprenticeship program, we are providing veterans on-the-job training in fields like cloud computing.
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It immediately received pushback from veterans groups like VoteVets and some sitting members of Congress who are veterans, such as Rep.
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While the Veterans Administration offers no-down payment loans to veterans and their families, there are few other programs like this.
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In addition to ending deportations of veterans, lawmakers have been increasingly concerned about the lack of medical care for deported veterans.
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That would allow DHS to "fast track" veterans' applications for citizenship, and to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" in handling deportations of veterans.
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Only recently have government programs such as the Department of Veterans' Affairs acknowledged the need for mental health treatment among veterans.
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The Veterans Coalition for Common Sense will push to strengthen gun background check laws and help prevent veterans from committing suicide.
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Sanders, a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said veterans' organizations argue the agency should be strengthened rather than privatized.
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Each one lives in a tiny home in the Veterans' Village in Kansas City, Missouri -- run by the Veterans Community Project.
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She had done advocacy work on behalf of fellow veterans with Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America and Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Veterans report that getting mental health care at a VA may be burdensome and veterans have low confidence in the system.
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The veterans community care program is a step in the right direction, allowing veterans to get care at a community provider.
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WE'VE GOT A SITUATION WITH VETERANS IN WHICH WE TALK ABOUT TAKING CARE OF VETERANS, BUT THEN THE VA DOESN'T WORK.
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A Senate Judiciary Committee report noted that all the major veterans service organizations supported the return of Veterans Day to Nov.
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Previously, veterans generally couldn't contribute to an H.S.A. if they had received treatment through Veterans Affairs in the previous three months.
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As of 2016, more than 85033,000 permanent supportive housing beds had been created for chronically homeless veterans and veterans with families.
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Former US Army Corporal Chris Stout started the Veterans Community Project, which connects homeless veterans with housing and other essential services.
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Elderly veterans qualify for Medicare and about half of all veterans in 2016 had health insurance coverage through the government program.
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The latest study, entitled "the veteran wage differential," studied the average wages of veterans and non-veterans from 2005 to 2015.
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Disabled American Veterans provides free transportation to men and women who can't travel to Veterans Affairs medical facilities on their own.
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Several veterans who died after suffering blast wounds have in fact developed C.T.E. But those veterans had other, nonblast injuries too.
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On this 101st Veterans Day, the good news is that US military veterans are contributing to the economy like never before.
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Let's show our veterans that Washington, D.C., believes that too by ensuring veterans receive the best health care and education possible.
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Most news reports about the care our nation's Veterans receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) highlight criticisms, not compliments.
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Starbucks: The giant coffee chain is offering free coffee for veterans, active duty service members, and military spouses on Veterans Day.
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"I think the Democrats are scared of believing that veterans can be allies or that veterans are even Democrats," he said.
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After searching US Veterans Health Administration databases, the researchers focused on 2592,870 veterans who ranged in age from 31 to 65.
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The delay had worried veterans organizations, which were concerned that Trump wouldn't keep his commitments to veterans made during the campaign.
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Ever since Donald Trump fired Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin late last month, veterans groups have been on high alert.
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Women veterans are also more likely to be unemployed than male veterans, and at least twice as likely to be homeless.
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Veterans The bill provides funding to reduce the backlog of more than 400,000 claims at Department of Veterans Affairs health centers.
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You know, I have three brothers who are veterans, and my brothers have given me an earful about the Veterans Administration.
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He also sponsored the Faster Care for Veterans Act, which sought to improve the way health care is delivered to veterans.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has made progress in accommodating the growing number, but sexual harassment persists, veterans and lawmakers say.
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While some veterans with bad paper don't qualify because they committed serious offenses with no excuse, many thousands of veterans do.
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She and Jeff work for soldiers and veterans through the Real Warriors Campaign and provide sanctuary for veterans on their farm.
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Every single day, one of the 2628 million women veterans in our country walks into her local Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital.
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The American Legion, the nation's largest wartime veterans service organization, has voted twice in favor of medical marijuana access for veterans.
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Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act after addressing veterans at the American Legion's national convention in Reno, Nev.
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B.J. Lawrence, the National Commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars, an American war veterans association, was at the executive order signing.
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On this wonderful Veterans Day, I want to express the incredible gratitude of the entire American Nation to our GREAT VETERANS.
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on legislation to provide veterans education assistance at 2202:2628 p.m. Monday.
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Peter Gaytan is the Communications Director at Concerned Veterans for America and has been involved in veterans advocacy for two decades.
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"As a memorial to all veterans, it only seems to represent -- the cross -- Christian veterans," Lowe told CNN in an interview.
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The Veterans Choice Program was created in 2014 after the scandal of hidden waiting lists at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.
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I'm tired of hearing from women veterans that they've scolded for parking in the "Veterans Only" spaces at the grocery store.
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And who'll miss the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veteran Benefits Administration, the Veterans Health Administration, or the National Cemetery Administration?
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The governor&aposs office first received complaints about the St. Louis Veterans Home in July, and Greitens directed the Missouri Veterans Commission — a state board of gubernatorial appointees who oversee veterans&apos services — to investigate, spokesman Parker Briden said.
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Even VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, the largest integrated healthcare organization in the Department of Veterans Affairs, has begun offering Dance for Veterans, a program that includes movement, creativity, social cohesion and relaxation to treat veterans with PTSD.
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Trump positioned himself as a spokesman for veterans throughout his campaign, praising their service, pledging to overhaul the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs and even holding a fundraiser for veterans when he decided to skip a Republican primary debate.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Lifeline for Troubled Veterans" (editorial, March 12): The announcement by the Department of Veterans Affairs of support for veterans who got less than honorable discharges is an important step in our national responsibility.
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Higher Goals pitched fake debt relief services, and Veterans of America allegedly conned people into donating vehicles for a fake veterans charity.
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In 2009, he helped set up Texas's first veterans court, which funnels veterans into treatment programs rather than jail for certain infractions.
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Ken Leslie, once homeless himself, founded Veterans Matter six years ago in Toledo, Ohio originally to help 35 local veterans get housing.
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Pay your respects Visit one of the nation's 136 veterans' cemeteries -- or maybe a veterans' memorial or monument -- to commemorate fallen soldiers.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin this summer agreed to meet with the CHC to discuss ways his department can help deported veterans.
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Residents in mandatory evacuation zones were told to evacuate to Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, Petaluma Veterans Building, and the Petaluma Fairgrounds.
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A Veterans Health Administration report said nearly 70% of suicides among male veterans were committed with a firearm between 2001 and 2011.
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Touring New Belvedere House in London, a facility for homeless veterans through the Veterans Aid organization, he showcased his signature salty wit.
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Chellie Pingree, a Maine Democrat, introduced the Veterans Fair Debt Notice Act of 2017, which aims to improve the process for veterans.
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A similar 15.7 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans screen positive for PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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HIV: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing fewer protections for military veterans who test negative for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
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Today, the House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hear testimony on the Commission on Care's final report on reforming the Veterans Health Administration.
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Veterans guide Nuggets past Jazz DENVER — The Denver Nuggets' young roster got a lesson in closing out games from two crafty veterans.
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A Republican congressman and two veterans groups slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday for spending millions of dollars on art.
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The House Veterans' Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved a measure to increase the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) research on medical marijuana.
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It's been two years since Americans learned of rampant neglect of veterans at the hands of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Today, veterans make up only 20 percent of Congress, leading to the question: Did public service post-Vietnam become inhospitable to veterans?
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Can veterans contribute to H.S.A.s through workplace health plans, if they also receive health care through the federal Department of Veterans Affairs?
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In 1991, the Veterans Affairs secretary announced new guidelines for compensating veterans who were exposed to mustard gas, effectively lifting the oath.
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It is unseemly for the Smithsonian to plan a memorial to "Native American Veterans" that does not include all Native American veterans.
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Walz said the program would help veterans rehabilitate by training therapy dogs, which would then go on to assist other disabled veterans.
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Friendly's: Veterans and active military members will receive a free Veterans Day breakfast, lunch, or dinner when they dine-in at Friendly's.
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Rob Coons is co-founder of Veterans in Technology, a nonprofit organization that helps transitioning veterans find employment and experience in technology.
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Sanders, who is on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and was once its chairman, highlighted the veterans groups' opposition in his statement.
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Recognizing that veterans' crimes may be driven by experiences of war, more than 350 communities, including Portland, have created veterans trauma courts.
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They are now the senior statesmen of the veterans community, as were the World War II and Korean War veterans before them.
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Veterans groups say the fastest and most effective way to help veterans get access to treatment is to simply reschedule the drug.
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When Superstorm Sandy closed the Manhattan Veterans' Affairs facility, veterans still had worse blood pressure control two years after the facility reopened.
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Veterans are civic and economic assets, not needy victims, and veterans' policies should be premised on helping them succeed in that way.
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Local advocates for veterans wish the progress here at the campus, where homeless veterans still camp outside the gates, would move faster.
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Projections show that the number of male veterans will decline in the coming decades while the population of women veterans will increase.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had a goal of ending homelessness among veterans by 2628, but they didn't meet it.
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Go deeper: Fake Facebook pages for veterans raised cash, spread lies for years Veterans face surprise medical bills from non-VA hospitals
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" On how to create a corporate culture that is supportive for veterans: "A lot of it's creating mentorship programs for our veterans.
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Altogether, they interviewed 53 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with PTSD related to their service as well as 78 veterans without the disease.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that as many as 20 percent of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan may have PTSD.
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Gomez's absence means his constituents have no representative to help resolve veterans claims and/or appeals with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The complications and long wait times that veterans routinely experience at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities are no secret to their families.
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A recent Student Veterans of America study indicated that today's veterans are completing their degrees at a high level in rigorous fields.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs may cover transition-related surgeries for transgender veterans in the near future under a proposed rule change.
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Advocates for veterans say that while more can be done to protect veterans financially, the low unemployment rate is reason to cheer.
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As a temporary fix to provide relief and swiftly deliver quality care to our nation's veterans, Congress created the Veterans Choice Program.
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Most of the veterans serving in Congress are Republicans; of the 13 veterans in this year's House freshman class, 10 are Republicans.
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Trump has cast himself a champion of veterans during his campaign and in July pledged to reform federal programs for war veterans.
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When I ran the VA's Center for Women Veterans, one of my highest priorities was changing the culture throughout the organization to be more welcoming of women veterans, who make up a small but rapidly growing percentage of our nation's veterans.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "A Move That Will Hurt Veterans" (Op-Ed, March 30): The former Veterans Affairs secretary, David J. Shulkin, lays out a number of compelling reasons it's a bad idea to privatize medical services for veterans.
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The move has received a fair amount of public blowback, with many veterans speaking out against the order and arguing it will not only dramatically slow the responsiveness of Veterans Affairs, but take away federal jobs from veterans returning from service.
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Reality Check: Sanders on $16 billion to veterans health care By Ryan Browne, CNN When asked by an Army veteran about his position on veterans issues, Sanders referenced his record in passing a bipartisan bill to address veterans' health care.
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As a voting bloc, veterans voted for Trump by a 2-to-1 margin, and in a recent survey, 82 percent of veterans said that they did not think veterans were better off under the Obama administration than they were previously.
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Put a veterans health care bill on the President's desk ... The Senate is scheduled to take up, and expected to pass with bipartisan support, a bill that will allow veterans to see doctors that are outside the Veterans Affairs system.
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Bills to bring accountability to the VA, expand veterans' GI Bill education benefits, ensure veterans' continued access to life-saving surgeries and offer veterans more options when appealing their disability claims have all been signed into law by President Trump.
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According to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which is hosting the event, each will take questions on national security, military affairs and veterans issues from Lauer and an audience made up of military veterans and active service members.
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Veterans are seeing the benefit too: the Farm Veteran Coalition has more than 5,000 members, and veterans have started their own grassroots projects like Comfort Farms, started by a veteran and run by veterans who want to learn farming skills.
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A follow-up poll, conducted in 1979 for the Veterans Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs), reported that former antiwar activists had warmer feelings toward Vietnam veterans than toward congressional leaders or even their erstwhile fellow travelers in the movement.
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As veterans' conditions worsen from 0 percent to 100 percent over time, I encourage the Department of Education in cooperation with the Department of Veterans Affairs to discharge student loans at the rate of a current disability for all veterans.
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The policy area in which Sanders has had the most practical influence is veterans-related issues, as he chaired the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs for a two-year span, during which Congress enacted substantive reform to the veterans' health system.
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This legislation's focus on access to legal services for homeless veterans, as well as increasing support services for female veterans and their families, addresses a need in the veterans' community that has unfortunately too often been ignored in recent years.
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Possible veterans cases are then referred to Ines Adan, director for human services at the city's Department of Veterans' Services, who confirms eligibility for a military burial, something she has done for more than 400 unclaimed veterans since 2008, she said.
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"You are taking money from veterans that should go to actual veterans organizations, to help yourself and to fraudulently defraud the public and all veterans that have served their country," said Dexter, who also works with the local American Legion.
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In President Obama's first term, the hospital system, which treats about six million veterans annually, faced rapidly rising demand as Vietnam War veterans began using more services and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made millions of new veterans eligible.
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Covering the Lives of Veterans, Revered but Often Forgotten: I took the veterans affairs beat at the end of last year and quickly found that veterans — and those who care for them — are eager to share experiences and to engage.
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Their Influence Diminishing, Veterans Groups Compete With Each Other and Struggle With the V.A.: The largest, older veterans service organizations see their influence diluted as newer, smaller groups focused on post-9/11 veterans compete for money, influence and relevance.
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Veterans Trump's team is heavily comprised of military veterans, including its director of caucus operations, Ryan Price, who served as an Army Ranger.
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A formidable obstacle has been blocking his path to coverage —the Veterans Online Application, part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) website.
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Veterans were also much more likely to approve of the US withdrawing from the Iran nuclear weapons agreement (53% of veterans, 254% overall).
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Afterward, a report on Veterans Day explores the history of the day itself and the sacrifices made by today's veterans and their families.
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This question is at the heart of my new film, After Fire, a documentary about women military veterans that premieres today, Veterans Day.
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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), some 20 veterans commit suicide every day – 10 times the number who die in combat.
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One difference between the newbies and the veterans is that the veterans can hold up to some TV-worthy banter while they cook.
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The cemetery is the resting place for more than 1,300 veterans and each year cemetery officials hold a celebration to honor the veterans.
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You want to make the Veterans Administration do a better job, give them — give veterans choices and you'll get a much better result.
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And his ties to veterans is under new scrutiny this week after delays surfaced in charity payments that he promised to veterans' groups.
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The first is a free buffet and beverage for all veterans and the second is 50% off a menu item for all veterans.
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Earlier this month, Apple partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with access to their electronic records on the iPhone.
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Former title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs President Trump's secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin, was pushed out of his position on March 28.
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We put some $16 billion into veterans' health care, as well as in taking care of veterans in a number of other areas.
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President Trump has always supported our veterans, and we are confident that he will listen to our plea on behalf of these veterans.
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For example, the party calls for shutting down the Veterans Administration (VA), and instead putting money into individual health savings accounts for veterans.
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We put some $16 billion in to veterans' health care, as well as in taking care of veterans in a number of areas.
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"If the commander-in-chief won't take care of our veterans, our veterans will," Dr. Christine McGinn told CNN's Michael Smerconish on Saturday.
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These veterans organizations represent millions of veterans, while the VA union represents only thousands of workers (some of whom don't support its leadership).
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He was looking forward to cooking for everyone at the school's Veterans Day Celebration on Monday, Cal Lutheran's veterans coordinator Jenn Zimmerman said.
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Unfortunately, for the nation's veterans, the current priorities of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have not changed much in the Trump era.
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While employment rates among veterans have improved markedly in recent years, veterans are far more likely to be underemployed than the general population.
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Veterans Against the War, a group of post-9/11 service members and veterans, protested outside the center, while others blocked the entrance.
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And as many as one in three veterans struggle with depressive symptoms and almost 220006 percent of veterans from recent deployments report depression.
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The latest reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs under the Trump administration give me a lot of hope on this Veterans Day.
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The White House also launched an official hotline two years ago to help veterans navigate the complexities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The legislation includes a one-year extension of the Veterans Choice program, which allows veterans to see private medical providers under certain conditions.
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"This decision is the right one for veterans and taxpayers," said Miller, the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, in a statement.
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Mnangagwa's supporter Christopher Mutsvangwa heads the Liberation War Veterans Association, whose members include veterans who expelled the white farmers nearly two decades ago.
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In recent years Caldwell's group has proposed the Veterans Independence Act to place veterans at the center of the VA health-care system.
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Members of Congress, the VA and others stand up every Memorial Day, Independence Day and Veterans Day and pledge to care for veterans.
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Even so, Robert McDonald, the secretary of veterans affairs, says the longer waits are because the care at veterans hospitals is getting better.
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It is further limited to veterans who have been in combat or who are disabled, excluding peacetime veterans without any service-connected injuries.
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While most companies are favorably disposed toward hiring veterans, many have gone a step further and instituted programs to recruit and hire veterans.
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As a member of Congress, my office works with veterans to help them navigate the bureaucracy at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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The Smithsonian Institution is about make a huge mistake by creating a Native American Veterans Memorial that will omit certain Native American veterans.
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"In the military and veterans community, Gold Star families are sacred," said Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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ON TAP FOR TOMORROW: The House Veterans Affairs Committee will investigate "How VA Improperly Paid Millions to Incarcerated Veterans" at 10:21625 a.m.
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Cicis Veterans Program also offers veterans the chance to have no franchise fee for their first restaurant and two years of no royalties.
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The big picture: Only 19% of the 535 members of Congress are veterans, and only four members are both women and veterans. Rep.
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But doctors in the veterans' health system say the department's lack of research has left them without much good advice to give veterans.
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A number of veterans take the ferry on their way to veterans' events in Washington, D.C., and I always try to recognize them.
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Members of veterans organizations can sometimes receive discounts when booking tickets, but veterans in the United States do not typically receive priority boarding.
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A law signed in June may allow more veterans to get care from private providers if veterans' hospitals fall short of performance standards.
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The same thermals can be spotted on both veterans who are out hunting and veterans that just don't feel like wearing civilian pajamas.
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Reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) so that this critical institution puts veterans' interests first is an important part of that task.
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Veterans Stand With Standing Rock, which organized this weekend's rally and other events, has warned veterans they could experience flashbacks to combat experience.
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"Our veterans are simply looking for a competent, proven and dynamic leader with integrity," says the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America organization.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has struggled to provide timely care to many veterans, and even its supporters say it needs an overhaul.
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Trump added Wednesday that veterans were on his side during the dispute, because McCain "didn't get the job done" with the Veterans Administration.
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About half a million veterans have pending claims contesting a Veterans Benefits Administration decision, many of which can take years to sort out.
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The pain out there for post-9/11 veterans is real, deep and compounding -- just as it was for every generation of veterans.
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Specifically, we cannot allow the same mistreatment faced by veterans of the Vietnam War to affect the post-9/11 generation of veterans.
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Veterans of that war, just like the veterans of the conflict in Afghanistan, did what was asked of them and served their country.
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For years, Concerned Veterans for America, based in Washington, was on the fringe of the veteran world, generally shunned by traditional veterans organizations.
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Studies have shown that Vietnam veterans were twice as likely than veterans of other eras to have elevated levels of depression and anxiety.
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Vice President Pence spent Saturday with veterans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., cleaning the memorial in bitter 26-degree weather.
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The veterans' only avenue for help is to apply individually to the Department of Veterans Affairs for free medical care and disability payments.
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VVA also recommended that the secretary of Veterans Affairs should develop "cyber-hygiene" plans to help educate veterans and service members on cybersecurity.
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The bill provides $85033 billion to continue funding the Veterans Choice Program, a program that gives veterans the opportunity to seek private care.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that the risk of suicide among our veterans is 22 percent higher than for nonveteran adults.
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Former President Obama named him undersecretary of Veterans Affairs for health and President Trump nominated him as secretary of Veterans Affairs in January.
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Shame on our government and the Department of Veterans Affairs for their criminal disregard for the medical care of our soldiers and veterans.
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While the annual Veterans Day gushing is fine, veterans would be more appreciative if their leaders concentrated on funding priorities for toxic exposure.
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The effort gives veterans vouchers that they can use to help pay for housing, combined with support services through Veterans Affairs medical centers.
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"The V.A. looks continually at medical research and follows trends related to medical conditions affecting veterans," Mr. Cashour, of the veterans department, said.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the suicide rate increased to 28255 per 2741,2741 people age 10 and older, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) newest numbers find that veterans aged 18-34 have a suicide rate more than twice as high as non-veterans, meaning that every day 20 veterans choose to end their own lives.
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The issue, which has pitted almost every major veterans group against Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group funded by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, and its allies, has been at the center of months of intrigue at the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs, which is charged with caring for the United States' 20 million veterans.
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"Asked again about the Goldstein case, Wilkie returned to the increasing use of the VA by women veterans, saying that 41%, or 780,000 women veterans, was approaching the 48% of male veterans who use VA."So we're getting close to parity now.
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Fewer veterans in Congress means there are fewer members who understand from first-hand experience the difficulties that veterans face – both in dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs on their health-care needs and with other issues connected to their service.
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"Participating in this kind of assembly even as a peaceful bystander or participant will only mar the image of the North Dakota veterans and the veterans of our nation," he added as he stood surrounded by about a dozen veterans from the region.
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Trump signed a bill into law that Tester, the ranking member on the Veterans Affairs Committee, introduced earlier this year to expand and reform the Veterans Choice Program, which allows some veterans to use provide health care providers located near their homes.
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The attachment of mainstream veterans groups to the existing VHA system appears to be caused by a desire to preserve a tangible, visible symbol of the importance of veterans rather than by careful consideration of what's best for the health of veterans.
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Stereotyping all veterans as charity cases in need of government entitlements and benevolent handouts from non-profits does not benefit veterans themselves nor does it improve health outcomes and, in turn the economy, by giving disabled veterans the opportunity to rejoin the workforce.
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Two years after a Department of Veterans Affairs scandal involving long wait times at veterans hospitals, an official report has found that the veterans' health care system suffers from "profound deficiencies" despite billions of dollars spent in recent years to overhaul it.
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For treatment options tailored to the needs of veterans, the Veterans Crisis Line directs those who have served and their loved ones to "qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline": 1-800-3783-8255, option 1.
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To that end, Section 208(c) of SRCA has won the support of Concerned Veterans of America because it provides incarcerated veterans who will ultimately return to society one day access to the full range of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and services.
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All six major veterans' organizations CNN said they had not been contacted by Trump representatives offering a piece of the proceeds raised -- those groups include: American Legion, the Wounded Warrior Project, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, AmVets and Fisher House.
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In 2014, Mr. Sanders, as chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, worked out an accord with Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, on a bill to expand veterans' access to health care after a scandal involving veterans' hospitals across the country.
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America's veterans fought to protect our freedoms and ensure our way of life, and the top priority of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to make sure we take care of the veterans who dedicated their lives to serving our country.
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"The general sense is outrage," said Kristen L. Rouse, the founder of the NYC Veterans Alliance, who like many female veterans has received an outpouring of emails and calls from other female veterans who said they had experiences similar to Ms. Goldstein's.
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The nation's largest veterans groups are urging President-elect Donald J. Trump to keep President Obama's secretary of veterans affairs, Robert A. McDonald, out of concern that his rumored candidates' inexperience and ideological leanings could cripple the massive veterans health care system.
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The high number of veterans using medical cannabis has prompted an internal review of the program by the federal minister of veterans affairs, and the government is moving to limit the amount of cannabis veterans can use to 10 grams per day.
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Lindsay Rodman, spokeswoman for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told CNN Monday there's still so much that can be done for veterans.
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With five 20-foot tall concrete panels, the Alaska Veterans Memorial honors all those Alaska veterans who have served and sacrificed in foreign conflicts.
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Tester has long prided himself as a champion for veterans and claims he acted in the best interest of veterans throughout the Jackson fracas.
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And while there was an increase in suicide among younger veterans, the majority of suicides (58.1%) came from veterans 55 years old and above.
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For his work, Landis earned the Google Student Veterans of America scholarship, designated for veterans pursuing university degrees in the field of computer science.
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A dishonorable discharge, issued for the most serious offenses, cuts off all military and veterans benefits, including healthcare from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The rest of the veterans lived in rural areas, and half of these veterans were at least 119 miles from a cochlear implant facility.
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The House passed a bill Wednesday that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to begin a project connecting service dogs and veterans.
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"No press releases, no media attention, no 'Look at what I am doing for homeless veterans,' " Smith wrote in a post for Veterans Today.
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After the 2018 midterms, despite an unprecedented number of female veterans joining Congress, just 96 veterans overall were set to be sworn into office.
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In 85003, the Congress that approved the use of force against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm had only slightly more veterans than non-veterans.
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Benefits to our veterans, for example, are almost 25 percent less than those receive by veterans in Florida, Arkansas, Georgia or Nebraska, for example.
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During her long career, Harriet made frequent visits to the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Minneapolis to meet with veterans suffering from life-altering injuries.
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The crisis: An average of 20 veterans die every day, and of those, 14 may have received no care from the Veterans Health Administration.
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Still, younger veterans face higher unemployment than their peers as they've had less time to translate their skills into civilian work than older veterans.
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After stints running the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs she won a House seat in 2012.
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Veterans, the VA, and the health care community all agree, we need to give our veterans better access to care in our VA system.
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Democrats and Veterans groups are complaining that President Trump wants to "privatize" the nation's largest integrated health system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system.
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Hopefully, more industries can follow the lead of the public sector in hiring and retaining veterans with a service-connected disability, and veterans overall.
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In this lesson, students reflect on what Veterans Day means to them and learn about the experiences of veterans visiting the nation's war memorials.
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According to Got Your Six analysis, veterans volunteer, vote, donate to charity, and are involved with local communities at higher rates than non-veterans.
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The Crapo Act adds new requirements to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty program to protect veterans who refinance their home loans.
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Tasked with this responsibility, however, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has failed to provide timely and quality care to many of our veterans.
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Lawmakers considered Monday's legislation, along with a slate of other bills geared toward veterans this week, ahead of the Veterans Day holiday on Saturday.
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Perhaps the most well-known effort, Veterans Job Mission led by JP Morgan Chase, has helped to hire more than 85033,000 veterans since 2011.
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Supporters donated $0003 million to the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock* GoFundMe, which will eventually pay for the travel of just under 2,000 veterans.
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Rory E. Riley-Topping has dedicated her career to ensuring accountability within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to care for our nation's veterans.
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When the Santa Rosa Community Outpatient clinic that serves over 85033 veterans-to close, the VHA knew that thousands of veterans could be impacted.
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Support veterans suffering from PTSD Coping with post-traumatic stress disorder can put stress on not just veterans but also their families and friends.
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" Dan Caldwell, the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, called the legislation "absolutely critical ... to ensure veterans don't lose access to critical care.
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Of the veterans running for the House, a dozen were women, marking the highest number ever, according to Veterans Campaign Executive Director Seth Lynn.
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Meant to celebrate U.S. veterans and American history, the red lager is made by Budweiser brewers who are also "proud veterans," the company says.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is slashing funding for a key program that helps provide housing to homeless veterans, according to a new report.
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Truly thanking veterans for their service means helping them when they need it most and rise above political opportunism to support veterans in crisis.
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I am proud to work for a company that employs over 10,000 veterans and lead a business that helps deliver transition services to veterans.
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Recent findings from the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) show that female veterans are significantly more likely to commit suicide than their male counterparts.
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Our Veterans History Project relies on volunteers throughout the nation to gather the first person narratives of the veterans in their lives and communities.
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He is one of the 20 veterans who kill themselves daily in this country, according to a 2018 Department of Veterans Affairs news release.
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Red Robin: Veterans and active-duty can check out Red Robin on Veterans Day for a free Tavern Double Burger with Bottomless Steak Fries.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has faced accusations of mismanagement and inefficiency, particularly after long wait times were discovered at some veterans' health facilities.
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It is a record of achievement for veterans, working with Republicans, helping to craft the most significant veterans healthcare bill passed in many decades.
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As under secretary of health, Shulkin is the chief executive of Veterans Health Administration and oversees 1,700 care sites serving 85033 million veterans annually.
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There he learned about the Veterans Health Administration's Compensated Work Therapy program, which helps veterans living with mental illness or physical impairment find jobs.
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His mother is a receptionist at the Veterans Memorial Home in Paramus, N.J., where veterans, their spouses and Gold Star parents receive health care.
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In June, Mr. Trump signed a law that reformed and consolidated Veterans Choice and other existing programs into a single Veterans Community Care Program.
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Organizers told veterans that Republican candidates would raise military pay, expand the Department of Defense and offer more private health care choices for veterans.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is using similar funding models in Montana, Washington and several other states to convert historic buildings for homeless veterans.
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After the American Legion Post in Hoboken, N.J., was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, the veterans rebuilding it decided to include apartments for homeless veterans.
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He is a graduate student at Brown University studying playwriting, and he runs the Veterans and Theater Institute, which creates theater opportunities for veterans.
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Benefits to our veterans, for example, are almost 25 percent less than those received by veterans in Florida, Arkansas, Georgia or Nebraska, for example.
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North Dakota's state veterans coordinating council, in a letter last week, asked the veterans who want to stand with the protesters not to come.
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The president should immediately grant access to PTSD and T.B.I. screening through the Department of Veterans Affairs for all veterans, regardless of discharge status.
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Rory E. Riley-Topping has dedicated her career to ensuring accountability within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to care for our nation's veterans.
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We must continue to see to it that the Department of Veterans Affairs lives up to the promises we have made to our veterans.
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The White House also said that it's requesting $85.5 billion for veterans' medical care and other programs designed to improve veterans' quality of life.
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Soldiers coming home joined veterans in mounting their own protests, embittered by horrific battlefield casualties, nightmarish atrocities and horrendous conditions at Veterans Administration hospitals.
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After adjusting for age, the 2017 rate of suicide among women veterans was over two times the rate among women who were not veterans.
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The report found the vast majority of veterans with other-than-honorable discharges — 87 percent in recent years — had not applied for veterans' benefits.
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The dogs graduate after 85033 weeks of training and transition from the prison to Veterans Courts and the homes of veterans and first responders.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has placed gun restrictions on thousands of veterans without due process, and Congress needs to address the matter.
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He's now a member of the veterans treatment court team, coordinating volunteer veteran mentors to support veterans who share the same struggles he did.
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For years, congressional offices have expressed a desire to add veterans to their team, but veterans' lack of Hill experience has been an obstacle.
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It would also create a veterans' health insurance program that enables veterans to use their benefits either inside or outside of the VA system.
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Four of the five major 2020 Democratic candidates have released detailed plans for how to improve veterans' care just in time for Veterans Day.
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In June, Mr. Trump signed a law that overhauled and consolidated Veterans Choice and other existing programs into a single Veterans Community Care Program.
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Concerned Veterans for America had been somewhat obscure before the 2016 election, and was generally dismissed by major veterans' associations like the American Legion.
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This has irritated Robert L. Wilkie, the Veterans Affairs secretary, who views these as unwelcome partisan positions, said several agency and veterans' group officials.
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The measure, which Mr. Boswell sponsored, called for the Department of Veterans Affairs to devise a comprehensive program to prevent suicide among troubled veterans.
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They said fewer than 9,000 eligible veterans had applied for loan discharges as of April 2018, and more than 25,000 veterans were in default.
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Caleb was one of the first veterans to volunteer for a joint study between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Canine Companions for Independence to document whether veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be helped by partnering with a highly trained service dog.
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Veterans' issues The many veterans and their family members in the audience on Wednesday night will have the opportunity to ask Obama about efforts to reform the dysfunctional veterans' health system and provide more support for wounded warriors or others returning from active duty overseas.
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Up to 20 percent of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans, up to 10 percent of Gulf War veterans and up to 30 percent of Vietnam War veterans are estimated to have experienced PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
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He also supports a sort of soft privatization of the Veterans Health Administration (something the majority of veterans still oppose): While I was advising the House GOP Conference, I helped draft a bill that would allow veterans to choose where to get their health care.
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The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act "would create three separate paths for veterans to choose from if they are not satisfied with the initial decision made by the Veterans Benefits Administration on their claims for VA benefits," according to the statement announcing the legislation.
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Veterans will have to obtain those records themselves and pay the significant research and copy costs that are routinely waived for the VA. The support of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans for HR 2288 is disheartening.
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Featured Article: "'I Have Waited 68 Years to See This': How Honor Flights Help Veterans Reflect" Each year, for Veterans Day, an organization, known as the Honor Flight Network, transports veterans from American Wars to the nation's capital to see the monuments honoring them.
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He served as a Democratic staff director for the Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and Economic Opportunity subcommittees of the House Veterans Affairs Committee; as a congressional liaison at the Department of Veterans Affairs; and as a legislative associate for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Although there are many differences between veterans and non-veterans, these three new results, combined with what we already know about differences in their employment rates, lead to an unambiguous conclusion: The traditional system has failed to help veterans transition into competitive, civilian-sector jobs.
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WASHINGTON — Some of the nation's largest veterans and military organizations sent letters last week to the Veterans Affairs Department asking it to crack down on colleges that prey on veterans by charging exorbitant fees for degrees that mostly fail to deliver promised skills and jobs.
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There's more drug pricing news today, on an insulin inquiry, but we'll start with news from the VA. VA unveils proposal to expand private healthcare for veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs Wednesday jumped into the controversial issue of allowing veterans to see private doctors.
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" November 2, 2017: H.R.20173 - Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2017 This law increases "the rates of veterans' wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
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The National Association of Blind Veterans, a division of the National Federation of the Blind, and other veterans' organizations feel that all veterans who have been medically discharged due to a disability obtained during their service should be eligible for the Space Available program.
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In the wake of reports that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has fallen from President Trump's good graces, a new poll, conducted by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, reveals that only 215% of post-218/2003 veterans surveyed approve of Shulkin's performance.
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Nevertheless, a new analysis of federal data by Veterans Education Success, a nonprofit that provides free legal services to student veterans, finds that the for-profit industry is still setting its sights on veterans and service members even as its nonmilitary enrollment has declined.
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For instance, under changes made to the G.I. Bill in 2017, veterans' housing allowances were recalculated to be based on where veterans take classes, rather than their school's main campus, which had resulted in some veterans being overcompensated for housing, while others were shortchanged.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final passage on Wednesday to a multibillion-dollar revamp of the veterans health care system, consolidating seven Veterans Affairs Department health programs into one and making it far easier for veterans to take their benefits to private doctors for care.
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"If there's a viable medical treatment available to civilians, it's not just inappropriate, it's patently unjust that veterans don't have access to it," said Lindsay Rodman, an executive vice president at the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which represents the country's youngest veterans.
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Kristen L. Rouse, founding director of the NYC Veterans Alliance, told CNN Monday the tweets showed that veterans haven't been and need to be heard.
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Veterans Day gives us a chance to salute the more than 20 million living veterans, including the 2 million active service members in the military.
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JPMorgan Chase committed $000 million to fund Syracuse's Institute for Veterans, and within its company has dedicated a team to recruit, acclimate and retain veterans.
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Amazon pledged to hire 25,000 veterans in the next five years, and Uber said the company had already fulfilled its goal of employing 50,000 veterans.
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Veterans with less-than-honorable discharges lose education benefits, preferential hiring and tax breaks, and they can be barred from the veterans' heath care system.
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A veterans card to be able to go to a private provider will enhance the quality of the service inside the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The Veterans Affairs Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018 was pushed over the finish line thanks to the overwhelming support of veterans across the country.
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He became compelled to help wounded veterans after seeing a TV program on the challenges faced by disabled and disfigured veterans returning home from war.
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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately 20 veterans commit suicide each day, and two-thirds of all veteran suicides are completed with guns.
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That's why last year, rather than hold another ceremony or parade on Veterans Day, my office launched our nation's first-ever Veterans Day Town Hall.
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Veterans for America, for example, tried to swindle people into donating things like cars and boats in the name of helping nonexistent charities for veterans.
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Apple and the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that veterans can now access their health information on their iPhone via Apple's health records service.
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Veteran service organizations like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars provide assistance at no charge to veterans who need help filling out applications.
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Researchers and veterans groups have also found alleged veterans organization pages that are actualy run by foreign agents and that target the group with misinformation.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is looking to protect veterans from suffering credit score mishaps at the hand of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who sits on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, blasted the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for outsourcing its suicide line.
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Earlier this week, a group of 20 veterans organizations sent a letter to Trump asking him to "strongly consider" keeping Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald.
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This also goes along with delivering clinical care to veterans, conducting research that benefits veterans and all Americans; and teaching the nation's health care workforce.
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Much of the $5.6 million that Mr. Trump helped raise for veterans came from wealthy individuals, and much of it went directly to veterans groups.
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Yet Mr. Trump's proposals would most likely prompt many veterans to choose private care and lead to a vastly smaller government health system for veterans.
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The program provides housing vouchers to veterans via the Department of Housing and Urban Development while the VA continues helping veterans find more permanent housing.
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The Phoenix Veterans' Affairs Health Care System has fired three senior officials after national outrage over veterans' wait times there, according to a new report.
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Montana has the third-highest percentage of veterans per capita in the country, which makes Tester's position atop the Veterans Affairs' Committee a selling point.
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Veterans are required to call a private contractor to authorize and schedule appointments with private doctors, a process that veterans have said can take weeks.
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She intended to use a mortgage loan guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which enables veterans to purchase a house without a down payment.
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Every November, Veterans issues receive far more attention than they do at any other time of the year, and this Veterans Day was no exception.
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By 2030, there will be at least nearly 85033 million fewer veterans for the department to serve, as WWII and Korean War veterans pass away.
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Red Lobster: The seafood chain will offer veterans, active-duty military and reservists a free appetizer or dessert on Veterans Day from a special menu.
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"It does matter for veterans that H.R. 6 passed," said Heather O'Beirne Kelly, who directs veterans and military health policy for the American Psychological Association.
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" Sinema also said she has spoken directly to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, "who expressed his support for extending the network of support to veterans.
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Brady pointed to an existing program in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in which the government can negotiate the costs of its veterans' healthcare.
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Since then, the Department of Veterans Affairs has provided him with free health care, as it does for all veterans who were disabled while serving.
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Vietnam Veterans of America and the Veterans of Foreign Wars recently convened a panel of experts on the topic of bad-paper on Capitol Hill.
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Through the concerted efforts of legislators, advocates, town officials, and activists, the state has ended chronic homelessness among veterans, and homelessness among veterans in general.
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Up to 200,000 American veterans are homeless, and one in four veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan say they struggle to afford food.
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" As Trump requested it be planned for Veterans Day, the event will "focus on the contributions of US veterans from the Revolutionary War to today.
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They aggressively recruit veterans, whose education benefits from the federal Department of Veterans Affairs do not count as student aid under the 90-10 rule.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced late Wednesday that it would not remove about $460 million in funding from the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program.
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"We've got 50,000 veterans that have registered for the Burn Pit Registry," said Dr. Richard Stone, the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration.
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The Veterans Choice Program was created in 2014 — not under Mr. Trump — after the scandal of hidden waiting lists at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.
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"It's moving toward an organization disproportionately composed of military veterans because of the funding that veterans are eligible for and civilians are not," Schieber said.
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This fall, Topgolf is partnering with the National Veterans Memorial and Museum to host VetOps, a nationwide hiring event for veterans on Friday, Nov. 85033.
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Organizations such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion hold considerable sway over veterans policy in Washington, and they solidly back Mr. Shulkin.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a suicide risk prediction program that uses A.I. to scan veterans' medical records for certain medicines and illnesses.
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And relations between the White House and veterans policymakers on Capitol Hill — particularly the leaders of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee — have reached a low.
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Not every hospital ended up billing veterans for their denied claims, but roughly 61,000 veterans were at risk for such a bill, the OIG found.
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Female veterans are five times more likely than male veterans to cite "lack of childcare" as a major stressor during their time in the military.
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He held town hall meetings with veterans and a televised fund-raiser in which he claimed (inaccurately) to have raised $6 million for veterans' groups.
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The opioid promoters hailed opioids as "safe and effective," and they particularly encouraged opioids for returning veterans — one reason so many veterans have suffered addictions.
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The effect of TBIs on war veterans CTE has been found in war veterans, too, who can suffer from repeated TBIs from events like explosions.
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Concerned Veterans for America will run ads in Wisconsin highlighting Baldwin's handling of an opioid over-prescription crisis at the Veterans Affairs center in Tomah.
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The effort to house the city's 30 homeless veterans began in October, and it has become a life-changing reality for veterans in the city.
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While lawmakers offer dozens of pieces of legislation to help veterans find jobs, we have only four dedicated to helping veterans like us start families.
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On March 29, Moulton will travel to Iowa to host a veterans roundtable with the Veterans Legal Society at the University of Iowa Law School.
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That's why IAVA, the leading post-28503/22019 veterans organization, launched She Who Borne the Battle, a groundbreaking campaign to recognize and support women veterans.
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There are now 96 veterans serving in the House and Senate, and reports indicate that more than 300 veterans are running for Congress this year.
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And he applauded Mr. Trump's determination to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs, reduce wait times for veterans seeking health care and protect their benefits.
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For-profit colleges say their schools are attractive to veterans because they offer flexible scheduling, online courses and career training in fields popular with veterans.
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Local Veterans Affairs centers and other entities loyal to Jim Crow did their parts as well, systematically denying nonwhite veterans access to the G.I. Bill.
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The recent pattern of veterans having higher unemployment rates than non-veterans was largely the result of their educational background rather than their military service.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a payer for about nine million veterans and their dependents, is a rare exception which publishes its payment schedule.
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Trump said past administrations had failed to address the problems with the Department of Veterans' Affairs, touting his move to create the Veterans Accountability Act.
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For two years, the Enewetak veterans have been trying, without success, to win medical benefits from Congress through a proposed Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act.
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Despite those systemic disparities, male and female veterans both experience higher average earnings and lower rates of poverty than non-veterans, according to federal data.
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The state Veterans Affairs department says the home that opened in 1984 is the nation's largest veterans home, with about 1,000 elderly and disabled residents.
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Leadership in the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, and the Congressional Veterans Affairs and Armed Services Committees is a top concern among veteran's advocacy organizations.
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But the major veterans groups, which together represent hundreds of thousands of veterans, said they favor the incremental reform they have seen under Mr. McDonald.
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Helping a few hundred veterans is fine, but Congress and the administration must address the remaining veterans who are dying because of military toxic exposure.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is under pressure to ease restrictions on veterans' access to medical marijuana to help treat pain and other ailments.
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A 2011 Veterans Affairs study found that veterans were twice as likely to die from an opioid overdose compared to the rest of the population.
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Many Democrats and most veterans organizations have opposed such policies, arguing that diverting funds from V.A. hospitals and clinics will damage care for needy veterans.
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The New York Times also provides anecdotes in "Military Veterans Respond to Our Cover Story About Moral Injury" that describe the psychological injury to veterans.
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Here tonight is Preston Sharp, a 22016-year-old boy from Redding, California, who noticed veterans' graves were not decorated with flags on veterans day.
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Sen. Tammy DuckworthLadda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthDuckworth celebrates Veterans Day with deported veterans in Mexico Senate Democrat introduces bill to protect military families from deportation Nuclear command nominee sidesteps questions on arms control treaties MORE (D-Ill.), a combat veteran and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she celebrated Veterans Day in Tijuana, Mexico, with U.S. veterans who have been deported since fighting for the country.
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Members of the veterans community both on and off Capitol Hill said they'd been concerned for months about the roles of two former Trump campaign officials: Darin Selnick, the veterans affairs adviser for the White House's Domestic Policy Council who has ties to the Koch-backed group Concerned Veterans for America, and Jake Leinenkugel, the former brewer and now White House senior adviser on veterans issues.
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IBM Watson Health has unveiled a new partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically improve access to cutting-edge cancer care for U.S. veterans.
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Apple (AAPL) is in talks with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide portable electronic health records to military veterans, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Consumer advocacy groups, including Veterans Education Success and Vietnam Veterans of America, are now urging the Education Department to automatically discharge the debt of these individuals.
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In June, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released data showing that veteran suicide numbers are significantly higher than non-veterans and are not declining.
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Veterans, for example, can even score a mortgage for no money down if they have good credit and go through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Apple – Apple is in talks with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide portable electronic health records to military veterans, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Situated near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Three Soldiers sculpture offers a more traditional recognition of the veterans and fallen service members from the Vietnam War.
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I'll bring it up tomorrow, too, and the day after — right up until veterans, especially female veterans, active-duty personnel, and their families get some answers.
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Apple announced this morning it has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make the Health Records feature on iPhones available to veterans.
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In 2016, for example, the US Department of Veterans Affairs denied a rule change to start covering the costs of gender confirmation surgery for transgender veterans.
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"We've found that civilians want to help veterans, but they don't know how or don't know how to ask veterans about their military service," Bassett says.
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At first blush, the decline of veterans in public office appears to be the natural consequence of the diminishing number of veterans in the overall population.
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President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that will expand private care for veterans as an alternative to the troubled Veterans Affairs health system.
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Veterans group Got Your Six said it's already working closely with the Trump transition team to make sure veterans have a voice in the new administration.
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The good news: Veterans are most attractive to employers when they have specific skills in tech and management, according to LinkedIn's Veterans Insights Report released Friday.
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Allison Jaslow is executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing post-9/11 veterans and their families.
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And 75 percent of veterans diagnosed with PTSD who have unfavorable discharges have been denied appeals, according to a report by Harvard University's Veterans Legal Clinic.
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Veterans gain unique skills and abilities through their military service, but some veterans find it difficult to match these skills with jobs in the civilian workforce.
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In 85003, 47.3 percent of veterans over 25 were employed, compared with 63.5 percent among non-veterans, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Kristofer Goldsmith is an Iraq Veteran, the founder of High Ground Veterans Advocacy, and assistant director for Policy and Government Affairs at Vietnam Veterans of America.
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A group of six Democratic lawmakers is urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to quickly lift its ban on covering transition-related surgeries for transgender veterans.
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The proposal released by the Department of Veterans Affairs could potentially make more than a million more veterans eligible for private healthcare than under current rules.
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Over recent years, as veterans of World War II and Korea have gradually left the stage, the number of veterans serving in Congress has shrunk dramatically.
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Employers don't always recognize what veterans have to contribute, and veterans often need to get other credentials to prove they're ready for the nine to five.
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The Mission Act notably allows veterans to use benefits at private medical facilities if their local Veterans Affairs hospital is unable to fully meet their needs.
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The Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), American Veterans, Vet Voice Foundation and others issued statements this week criticizing Zinke's comments made at a congressional hearing Tuesday.
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For those who follow veterans' policy, there are generally two types of conventional wisdom with regard to how to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Veterans Affairs: The Washington Post — Trump's new nominee to head the Veterans Affairs Department, acting Secretary Robert Wilkie, is receiving a cautiously enthusiastic reception from lawmakers.
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This will ensure veterans can access quality care, designed to meet the unique needs of veterans, and get an appointment when and where they need one.
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Because of such discharges, more than 125,000 veterans who served since 2001 have been barred from receiving basic veterans' services, including 20093,000 who served in combat.
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I currently direct the Veterans Legal Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law, which files discharge upgrade petitions on behalf of veterans with unjust discharges.
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Actually the suicide rate is increasing, but the total number of veterans is declining because World War II and Korean War veterans die of old age.
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However, if Trump wants to maintain the political support of veterans who voted for him in 2628, he must adapt his approach to discussing veterans' issues.
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To this end, nearly all of the major veterans service organizations partnered with veterans lawyers to file amicus curiae briefs in support of the Procopio case.
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