Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment
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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Returning Vets Face a New Battle: The Job Market
Updated: April 1 2011,
Author: barrel jason
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As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the challenges veterans face returning home and searching for work in a troubled job market.
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