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University at Buffalo
When they enter the military, they're among the healthiest people in the country. But as they begin active duty — and even more so when they conclude their service and enter veteran status — they often join the ranks of the nation's unhealthiest populations. This disparity in veteran health is examined in detail in a recent paper published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
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Military Times
Joining Forces officials will celebrate five years of work highlighting veterans and military families, but they'll also be wondering what the next few months will mean for the future of the effort. The most tangible results have been in employment. Over the last five years, Joining Forces has received more than 1.25 million hiring commitments for veterans and military spouses from its corporate partners.
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Military.com
In late September, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation launched a new nonprofit initiative called Hidden Heroes, a resource network and fellowship program intended to recognize the underappreciated contribution of those who care for physically and psychologically disabled veterans. At the launch gala, actor Tom Hanks introduced the program and noted, "By military caregivers ... we're talking about wives, and family members, and girlfriends, and kids, and parents." Caregivers to veterans give time, energy, and resources for little credit. Many of them are women, but what about the nearly half of caregivers who are men: husbands, boyfriends, and male friends who care for disabled veterans?
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Military.com
Every Nov. 11, we honor all the men and women who have served our country. These brave Americans risk their lives to protect our rights and freedom, and Veteran's Day is one way that our great nation says thank you. This year, we not only honored the service of these men and women, but we also celebrate the lowest veteran unemployment rate in seven years. The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of just 4.6 percent among veterans, the lowest rate our country has seen since 2007. This statistic shows a 1.4 percent decline from last year, continuing the consistent decline in unemployed vets.
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Smithsonian.com
Injury is a sad fact of military service, especially in wartime. According to a study performed by scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, by far the most frequent is soft tissue injuries to skin, fat and muscle.
Of these, muscle damage is particularly difficult to heal. Beyond a certain size — about one cubic centimeter — the body simply cannot do it. As a result, people experiencing this kind of trauma, called volumetric muscle loss, lose function of the muscle, and experience deformation, scar tissue or contracted muscles.
According to a study from 2015 in the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (a peer-reviewed publication put out by the Department of Veterans Affairs), volumetric muscle loss is typically permanent.
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Salisbury Post
Veteran entrepreneurship remains strong. A review of the literature shows that veterans are more likely to own their own business than those with no active-duty military experience and recent numbers show an increase women and minority veterans entering into entrepreneurship. An examination of research on veteran business owners has been released by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University.
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Task & Purpose
A recent survey from HillVets, a bipartisan veterans group based in Washington, D.C., found that roughly 1 percent of staff members serving in congressional offices are veterans. In contrast, roughly 60 percent of annual discretionary spending is related to veterans and the military.
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The New Yorker
In the week after the election, the Equal Justice Initiative, of Montgomery, Alabama, released a new report — a fifty-three-page addendum to last year's "Lynching in America," an unprecedentedly thorough survey of American racial violence and terror between 1877 and 1950. Drawing on small-town newspaper and court archives, along with interviews of local historians and victims' descendants across the South, "Lynching in America" tallied 4,075 lynchings, at least 800 more than any previous count. The new report, "Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans," concludes that, during the same period, "no one was more at risk of experiencing violence and targeted racial terror than black veterans." The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians, but the topic has never received such comprehensive standalone treatment. In the aftermath of Trump's victory, it seems eerily relevant.
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TIME
A decision by Hampshire College to stop flying the American flag on campus led hundreds to protest at the Massachusetts school recently.
The election of Donald Trump as President led some students to lower an American flag that waved above the campus to half-mast, New York magazine reports. Later, an individual lit the flag on fire just days before Veterans Day, and the college president soon called for the removal of all flags on campus.
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