Jobless Rate for Veterans Serving in the Post 9/11 Era

Employment Situation of Veterans 2008 03/21/09. The unemployment rate for all veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces was 4.6 percent in 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The jobless rate for those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces since September 2001 was 7.3 percent. Bureau of Labor Statistics