Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz donates $30m to U.S. troops to help fund study into PTSD as they leave Afghanistan
Starbucks CEO donates $30 million to research into brain trauma and PTSD
Said U.S. is better at sending people to war than bringing them home
Howard Schultz also promised to hire at least 10,000 vets and spouses
Daily Mail UK
By SARA MALM
PUBLISHED:20 March 2014
The CEO of global coffee chain Starbucks is donating $30million to benefit the rehabilitation of U.S. war veterans.
Howard Schultz’s contribution has been earmarked for research into brain trauma and PTSD suffered by thousands of returning soldiers.
This follows Shultz promise last year to hire at least 10,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.
Mr Schultz also criticised the U.S. government saying they do a better job of sending people to war than bringing them back from the front line.
‘These young men and women who are coming home from multiple deployments are not coming home to a parade,’ he told CBS News.
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