By the Numbers - Mar. 24, 2014

By the Numbers - Mar. 24, 2014

9%

The unemployment rate for veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces any time since September 2001 ("Gulf War-era II veterans") in 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down slightly from 2012, when the rate for the same group of veterans was 9.9%.

The 2013 unemployment rate for all veterans was 6.6%.

The unemployment rate for the U.S. workforce as a whole was 6.7% at the end of 2013.

unemployment rate for veterans
Bureau of Labor Statistics