NBC Washington reports that the Department of Veteran Affairs reduced the veterans’ claims backlog by 900 cases between October 1 and October 16 despite the government shutdown. Read more.
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In this year’s News21 project, two dozen top student journalists from 12 universities are investigating the struggles and blinding bureaucracy confronting returning veterans after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Are they benefiting from the many promises of the federal government and Congress? Has their service to the country resulted in education assistance, job opportunities and critical medical and mental health care? Or will the remnants of war forever follow them as well as their families?
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