Veterans Facts Do you know that the number of US Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who are homeless or at risk for becoming homeless has more than double over the past two years? The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that 62,619 veterans are homeless on a given night over the course of a year, and more than twice that number are at risk of homelessness. About 13 percent of homeless Afghan and Iraq war veterans are women, and almost 50 percent of all homeless veterans are African American. 1. About 25 percent of recent veterans come home injured. Missing limbs, burns, spinal cord injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are among the crushing conditions these veterans face. 2. In addition to the problems of lack of affordable housing, lack of decent paying jobs and inadequate access to health care, many veterans suffer from substance abuse. 3. The training that veterans receive in the military is not always practical when it comes to seeking civilian employment. US Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows 30.2 percent of veterans age 18 to 24 were unemployed, and nearly 1 in 10 with disabilities were unemployed. More than 968,000 veterans from the WWII era to the present lived had lived in poverty in the past year in 2010.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:43:06 +0000
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