By the Numbers: 28 December 2020

By the Numbers: 28 December 2020

15.1%

The unemployment rate of "the youngest post-9/11 veterans’ (ages 18-24)" in November 2020, according to a recent brief from the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University -- The Employment Situation of Veterans – November 2020.
 
The unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans’ ages 25 to 34 increased from 7.6 percent to 9.4 percent in November. Both these group of post 9/11 veterans (ages 18-24 and 25-34) were unemployed at a higher rate than their nonveteran peers of the same age group.