By the Numbers: 19 April 2021

By the Numbers: 19 April 2021

19.3%

The percentage of employed veterans with a disability who worked for the federal government in August 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "compared with 9.0 percent of Veterans with no disability and 2.5 percent of nonveterans."

In August 2020, 2.6 percent of veterans with a service-connected disability were self-employed, lower than the share of veterans with no service-connected disability (7.3 percent) or nonveterans (6.0 percent). (Note that the unincorporated self-employed category includes a small number of unpaid family workers.)