michelle and jill biden have worked with the private sector with businesses to secure a pledge of 135,000 jobs for veterans and their families. and with the support of democrats and republicans, we put in place two new tax credits for companies that hire veterans. so these are all important steps. we've made progress. but we've got to do more. there's more we can do. in my state of the union address, i proposed a new initiative calls the veterans jobs corps. to put the veterans back to work protecting and rebuilding america, and today we're laying out the details of this proposal. first, we want to help communities hire more veterans as cops and firefighters. you guys have seen what great job jacob's doing. well, there are a whole bunch of