2005 Employment Situation of Veterans — 2006-05-26

(This news release was reissued on June 18, 2007, to correct in- formation about the periods of service listed in the Technical Note. The data in this release were not affected by the corrections.) In August 2005, the unemployment rate for veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces was 3.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. There were 3.4 million Gulf War-era veterans (those who served anytime since August 1990) in the labor force. The jobless rate for these veterans was 5.2 percent. About 11 percent of all veterans had a service-connected disability. This information on veterans was obtained from a special supplement to the August 2005 Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is the monthly sample survey that provides much of the basic data on employment and un- employment for the United States. The CPS is conducted for BLS by the U.S. Census Bureau.