Veterans Of Recent Wars Confront Grim Employment Landscape -- Washington PostIN HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. During the seven months that he was stationed in Iraq, Joe Janssen served as an assaultman, a job that involved manning the turret gun in a Humvee and using shoulder-fired rockets and other explosives to support his fellow Marines.
Those skills were invaluable in war. But they are of little use now that he is back home in Hauppauge, N.Y., a Long Island hamlet. He has applied for job after job since leaving active duty well over a year ago, but his efforts have proved futile.
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My Comment: With trillion dollar deficits, companies reluctant to hire additional workers, higher taxes forecast for all .... yup .... prospects do not look good at all.