Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Louis Hicks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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In this book, 50 experts study the lives of U.S. veterans at work, at home, and in American society as they navigate issues regarding health, gender, public service, substance abuse, and homelessness. The aftermath of modern war includes a population of veterans whose needs last for many decades—far longer than the war itself. This in-depth study looks at life after the military, considering the dual conundrum of a population benefiting from the perks of their duty, yet continuing to deal with trauma resulting from their service, and of former servicemen and servicewomen trying to fit into civilian life—in a system designed to keep them separate. Through two comprehensive volumes, essays shed light on more than 30 topics involving or affecting former servicemen and servicewomen, offering a blueprint for the formal study of U.S. veterans in the future. Contributions from dozens of experts in the field of military science cover such issues as unemployment, homelessness, disability, access to higher education, health, media portrayal, criminal justice, substance abuse, guns, suicide, and politics. Through information gleaned from surveys, interviews, participant observations, secondary analyses, and content analyses, the chapters reveal how veterans are able to successfully contribute to civilian life and show how the American workforce can benefit from their unique set of skills.

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1056

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1640

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Author: United States Civil Service Commission. Library
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: United States Civil Service Commission. Library
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Olivier Burtin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512823155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. They succeeded in securing their privileged status in public policy only by rallying behind powerful interest groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Legion. In the process, veterans formed one of the most powerful movements of the early and mid-twentieth century, though one that we still know comparatively little about. In examining how the veterans’ movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans offers a new history of the U.S. welfare state that highlights its longstanding connection with warfare. It shows how a predominantly white and male group such as military veterans was at the center of social policy debates in the interwar and postwar period and how women and veterans of color were often discriminated against or denied access to their benefits. It moves beyond the traditional focus on the 1944 G.I. Bill to examine other important benefits like pensions, civil service preference, and hospitals. The book also examines multiple generations of veterans, by shedding light on how former service members from both world wars as well as Korea and the Cold War interacted with each other. This more complete picture of veterans’ politics helps us understand the deep roots of the military welfare state in the United States today.