Mike Michaud: “With more of our servicemembers returning home each day, we cannot afford to let any opportunity to better support our…”

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.

We are addressing the skill gap between veterans and employers who are seeking employees with industry-recognized credentials.

This has strong support from key veterans groups, like the VFW and The American Legion.

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.