Jobless rate for veterans lower for men, higher for women

Jobless rate for veterans drops in November
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Dec 2, 2011 9:48:10 EST
The unemployment rate for veterans fell in November to 7.4 percent for all veterans and 11.1 percent for those who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan era.

At the same time that the national unemployment rate dropped from 9 percent in October to 8.6 percent in November, the rate fell 0.4 percentage points for veterans of all generations and a full 1 percentage point for people who separated from the service since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The November report contains an unexplained disparity. For men who separated since 2001, the unemployment rate fell from 12.3 percent in October to 10 percent in November.

But for women of the same class of veterans, the unemployment rate climbed, from 10.9 percent in October to 18.7 percent in November, a jump that is likely the result of women veterans being a very small sample in the larger employment survey.
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