to mark veterans day on washington journal we have a full lineup of guests. we begin with a question for you about america s connectedness with its military. is it are forgotten 1%? many people are looking at the consequences of an all-volunteer army and the closing of many military bases around the country and suggesting it has consequences for us from a policy perspective. we will talk about that and open up our phone lines on this veterans day morning. good friday morning to you, a day when lots of people who look at numbers are looking at today, 11-11-11. we are going to spend our morning talking about veterans day. this chart tells the story behind our question to you this morning. it s a graphic demonstration of the total percent of the u.s. population who are in the armed forces from 1900 to 2010. the first spike, of course, world war i. look at the numbers for world war ii. korean war, vietnam war. since 2000, about 1% of the total population has served in the armed
at the c-span video library. vfw what is slated director ray kelly talked about recently passed legislation to provide tax credits for businesses that hire veterans. the senate passed by unanimous votes. moves on to the house. here is the headline in usa today. give us a sense of the jobs situation among veterans in the u.s., and the second question, will the legislation do anything to address that? guest: veterans joblessness is at, especially for young veterans, 18 to 24 year olds, is 12.1%. the national averages 9%. bonn that category increased, the rest of their cohorts decreased. that gap is widening and will continue to widen as we bring more troops home from iraq and afghanistan. the second part, will the piece of legislation help? absolutely. there are more parts to it, everyone is talking about the tax credit, but there are more parts to it. there are extensions to extension vocational rehabilitation, to make sure that they have job skills that are tangible, that the