2007 Employment Situation of Veterans — 2008-04-10

(NOTE: This news release was reissued on Friday, April 11, 2008, to correct an estimate shown in the text on page 3. The estimate of Gulf War-era II veterans with a service-connected disability was cor- rected from "18 percent" to "about 17 percent." Data in the tables and other figures in the text were not affected by this correction.) In 2007, the unemployment rate among veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces since September 2001 was 6.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. About 17 percent of these veterans, also called Gulf War-era II veterans, had a service-connected disability in August 2007. The jobless rate for veterans of all eras combined was 3.8 percent in 2007. About 12 percent of all veterans had a service-connected disability in August 2007.