Not all recent veterans are so lucky. Around 800,000 veterans are jobless, 1.4m live below thepoverty line, and one in every three homeless adult men in America is a veteran. Though theoverall unemployment rate among Americas 21m veterans in November was lowerthan the national rate , for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan it was 11.1%. And forveterans between the ages of 18 and 24, it was a staggering 37.9%, up from 30.4% just amonth earlier.
不是所有最近退役的士兵都像昆士昂那样幸运,能找到份工作。目前在美国,大约八十万退伍兵处于失业状态;生活在贫困线以下的退役士兵有一百四十万人;每三个成年无家可归者中就有一个是退伍兵。在十一月的调查中发现,在美国两千一百万退伍兵里,总失业率为7.4%。这一比例确实要比全国失业率的8.6%要低。但从伊拉克和阿富汗战场上回到国内的退役士兵,失业率却为11.1%。而年龄在18到24岁的退役士兵,失业率已从10月的30.4%激增到11月的37.9%。
If demography is indeed destiny, perhaps this figure should not be surprising. More soldiersare male than female, and the male jobless rate exceeds womens. Since so many soldiers lack acollege degree, the fact that the recession has been particularly hard on the less educated hitsveterans disproportionately. Large numbers of young veterans workor workedin strickenindustries such as manufacturing and construction. Whatever the cause, this bleak trend isoccurring as the last American troops leave Iraq at the end of this year, and as more than 1mnew veterans are expected to join the civilian labour force over the next four years.
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