The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to eliminate as many as 35,000 healthcare positions, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses, and support staff, according to internal memos obtained by the Washington Post. The cuts would reduce VA healthcare workforce to as few as 372,000 employees—a …
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On January 1, 2023, a critical reform to the “90/10 rule” governing for-profit college federal aid eligibility took effect, finally closing a decades-old loophole that had incentivized predatory targeting of military veterans and active-duty service members by for-profit colleges seeking …
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On July 28, 1932, U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur violently disperse the Bonus Army—43,000 demonstrators including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who had marched on Washington, D.C. to demand early payment of service bonus …
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The American Legion holds its founding convention in Minneapolis on Armistice Day 1919, emerging as a major force in the Red Scare and anti-labor campaigns of the 1920s. Founded by Army officers including Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Hamilton Fish III in Paris earlier that year, the organization …
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