News From the Cause
For Many Returning Veterans, Home Is Where the Trouble Is: (The New York Times)
January 03, 2011
For Many Returning Veterans, Home Is Where the Trouble Is (The New York Times) Someday the country will recognize that the population of veterans is growing, and that yellow-ribbon magnets aren’t enough to help them. Unfortunately, Congress hasn’t figured it out. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has a welcome campaign to end the problem of veterans’ homelessness in five years. But a bill to give the V.A. $50 million more to address homelessness went nowhere in the lame-duck session. The next Congress must do better.click here to view



