FarrelTs Dominion Leads Troops to Energy Jobs

摘要

In a weakened economy with few companies hiring, 1 million U.S. veterans are unemployed. Their figurative light at the end of the tunnel could come by way of the literal, however, through a pilot program called Troops to Energy Jobs."A jobless rate of 30 percent for veterans is a disgrace, and we need to be doing more about this," said Thomas F. Farrell II, chairman, president and CEO of Dominion Resources and chairman of the Edison Electric Institute.Farrell's figure is rounded up, but not much. Male veterans 18-24 years old have an unemployment rate of 26.9 percent, according to a May report on veterans' labor force needs by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee chairman's staff. The report cites the government's unpublished Current Population Survey tables from April.