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Washington, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that will afford Columbia student veterans the tuition benefits they were promised when they enrolled.

NEW YORK -- Earlier today, tens of thousands of student veterans attending private colleges on the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill cleared the final hurdle in an ongoing battle to secure promised tuition dollars.

Congress has passed emergency legislation to prevent thousands of Post-9/11 GI Bill students from a drop in tuition payments next week when new policies will simplify the popular education program.

On behalf of the more than 101 million members of the National Association of REALTORS®, we thank you for extending the loan limits in H.R. 2433, the "Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011."

Lost in the headlines about the mind-numbing debt ceiling debate and Japan’s  Women’s World Cup victory, the unemployment rate for new veterans jumped to 13.3 percent in June, 4 percentage points higher than the national average. Last time we polled IAVA’s membership, they reported close to 20 percent unemployment.

SILVER SPRING, Md.—Each time Joey Jones comes home to Dawnville, Ga., cameras crowd for attention and an interview is always pending.

60,000 veterans were added to the unemployment rolls in June. That brought the total number of America’s out-of-work veterans to over 1 million – a staggering figure.

A comprehensive veterans’ employment bill sponsored by the chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee won some key endorsements Friday — but a vocal opponent also surfaced.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. will testify before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs tomorrow morning to discuss long-overdue legislation to help veterans find jobs.

Loyalty. Discipline. Respect. Leadership. Those are values that any employer would like to see in new employees - and those are the values that make veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan our country's next Greatest Generation.