A Legion System Worth Saving inspection team is spending the week examining facilities and interviewing administrators and staff at the Denver VA Medical Center. Task force teams travel nationwide throughout the year to help assure VA medical facilities offer the best care possible for military veterans.
The Legion is present at the “Veterans Campaign” workshop at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The two-day event is dedicated to veterans who wish to continue their national service by running for political office. Speakers include several Congressmen who are military veterans, prominent military press representatives and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran and son of Vice President Joe Biden.
The Legion is present at the “Veterans Campaign” workshop at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The two-day event is dedicated to veterans who wish to continue their national service by running for political office. Speakers include several Congressmen who are military veterans, prominent military press representatives and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran and son of Vice President Joe Biden.
Jeff Steele, assistant director of the Legislative Division, is attending House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the impact of political developments in Egypt and Lebanon on U.S. foreign policy.
Legion staff is attending a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing concerning JPMorgan Chase’s alleged violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. An executive vice president of the mammoth bank is being questioned about unlawful practices that led to some active-duty servicemembers wrongly losing their homes.
Jeff Steele, assistant director of the Legislative Division, is attending House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the impact of political developments in Egypt and Lebanon on U.S. foreign policy.
Joe Sharpe, director of the Legion’s Economic Division, is one of five panelists participating in an ecologically oriented conference concerning veterans unemployment today. Moderated by the Sierra Club, the “Easing the Transition Home for Veterans through Good, Green Jobs” panel discussion is concentrating on employment challenges faced by veterans and solutions offered by emerging opportunities in the “green economy.”
Invitations are arriving to over 50 non-profit organizations asking them to exhibit at The American Legion’s National Convention next August in Minneapolis. These organizations are previous Child Welfare Foundation grant recipients, and exhibiting at national convention provides opportunity for them to highlight to Legion members many of the issues facing children today.
The Legion’s Economic Division director, Joe Sharpe, is among those meeting with White House officials today in an effort to persuade the Obama administration to continue an employer incentive program that benefits veterans. The congressionally authorized Work Opportunity Tax Credit rewards private-sector businesses that hire individuals from a dozen targeted groups, including veterans with service-connected disabilities
Members of the Legion’s System Worth Saving Task Force are inspecting VA medical facilities in Philadelphia, Phoenix and Tucson today. The SWS team works with VA officials to assure the best medical care possible is available to America’s veterans.
