Mike Michaud: “Change is necessary if we are to position the VA to meet its responsibilities and fulfill its mission in the coming…”

VETS is committed to reducing veterans' unemployment nationally by helping each veteran through individual services.

USERRA prohibits discrimination in employment based on an individual's prior service in the uniformed services, current service in the uniformed services, or intent to join the uniformed services.

And so our bill, the PAWS Act, takes these veterans, particularly the ones that have severe Post-Traumatic Stress, and authorizes a small amount of funding so that the VA can pair them with specially trained service dogs.

If you look at the chart comparing women veterans to female non-veterans, you can see in that chart that actually the female veterans' number is lower than the female non-veterans.