Labor Department News Releases Update

This National Emergency Grant was originally approved for up to $5,586,385 on December 16, 2013, with $2,888,266 initially released. Today's award increases the total funding to the full approved amount of $5,586,385. This incremental funding willprovide for the continuation of reemployment services to airmen and soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord who are separating from military service as a result of Department of Defense budget cuts and preparing to enter the civilian workforce. The grantee's request for incremental funding indicated that more than 35 service members seek assistance weekly, and that momentum is expected to continue to build as the project enhances the successful system now established for business recruitment, job training and job placement.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today issued the following statement regarding the release of the 2014 Employment Situation of Veterans report by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics: