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Ronald Reagan: “The program was enacted in 1983, because the unemployment rate for Vietnam veterans (9.1 percent) exceeded for the first…”

On the recordJune 24, 1987
The program was enacted in 1983, because the unemployment rate for Vietnam veterans (9.1 percent) exceeded for the first time the rate for the comparable group of non-veterans.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 1504 - Extension of the Veterans' Job Training Act

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