by Kaitlin Meehan | Aug 22, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — While the public is concerned with the 9 percent unemployment rate across the country, a certain subset of the population is especially worried – veterans. The post-9/11 veteran unemployment rate is 13.3 percent and ranges as high as 30...
by Kaitlin Meehan | Aug 22, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security
Ryan Koniak has nine years of experience in the Army National Guard including two overseas deployments. He also has a bachelor’s degree and is working on his second master’s degree – yet he can’t find a full-time job. Veteran unemployment is...
by Kaitlin Meehan | Aug 8, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics
In order to close a $17 million budget deficit this year and prevent roughly 600 layoffs, Virgin Islands legislators passed a government-wide 8 percent pay cut that went into effect last week. Kaitlin Meehan spoke with Jeffrey Kosnett, senior editor of...
by Kaitlin Meehan | Jul 29, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security
<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/27030703?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”590″ height=”332″ frameborder=”0″></iframe> With U.S. troops beginning withdrawal from Afghanistan this...
by Kaitlin Meehan | Jul 21, 2011 | Business & Tech
With two weeks left before the federal government runs out of money to pay its bills, Congressional leaders are still debating whether to raise the debt ceiling. Kaitlin Meehan sat down with Congresswoman Donna Christensen, D-Virgin Islands, to talk about the possible...
