2010 Employment Situation of Veterans — 2011-03-11

NOTE: This release was reissued on Thursday, October 20, 2011, to correct an error in Table 3. The data for the educational attainment categories erroneously contained data for those age 18 and over instead of for those age 25 and over. The analyses in this release were not affected by the corrections. The unemployment rate for veterans who served in the military at any time since September 2001--a group referred to as Gulf War-era II veterans--was 11.5 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The jobless rate for veterans of all eras combined was 8.7 percent, compared with 9.4 percent for non- veterans. About 25 percent of Gulf War-era II veterans reported having a service- connected disability in July 2010, compared with about 13 percent of all veterans.