210 jobs veterans can get with year of training

210 jobs veterans can get with year of training
By Rick Maze
Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 31, 2012

The Labor Department has identified 210 occupations in which unemployed veterans could find work after as little as one year of education and training through the new Veterans Retraining Assistance Program.

But House staffers say there is reason to believe the list is not complete.

The 210 occupations will be covered by a $1.6 billion program that gives veterans age 35 to 60 one year of additional education benefits to retrain into a field where they can get work. The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee staff, however, noticed that long-distance truck driving was not mentioned.

“There is a shortage of 300,000 qualified truck drivers in this country right now,” said Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. “Yet truck driving is nowhere in the Department of Labor’s list of in-demand jobs.”
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