Employment and where there are still challenges to overcome. We will hear from members of our military and their families. Youll hear about their struggles and their triumphs, as they navigate the transitions to civilian life. We will get a first look at a road map created by the Bush Institute and hiring our heroes. The roadmap serves as a guide or the men and women of our military as they seek meaningful, longterm employment as civilians. We know that securing military meaningful, longterm employment and experiencing a Successful Transition from military to civilian life, go handinhand. Our fellow citizens have answered the call to support our veterans and military families with opportunity. Over the past five years, over 2000 businesses were part of the coalitions in this room, hiring our heroes, the hundred thousand job coalition, led by j. P. Morgan chase, blackstone, as well as organizations like bank of america, have committed to hiring veterans. Our government partners at the v
Call to action and i said you know what can you do, ill tell you. You can pay your vendors within 15 days of getting a valid invoice from them. That would show your commitment back and he accepted that challenge and im very, we theed path finders like this in corporate america, so that is one of the, it opens the conversations we had and im seeing results and am grateful for that. Is there an argument beyond listen, that you can point to your supply chain and say this is a really brilliant business decision thats going to help you make a lot of money. First data as a supplier, general actually declared were going the hire 30 of new hires spouses. I turned that to our supply chain and said not only do i want you to do it, im not writing you out of the contract, but id like you to do that as well. Not because youre a supplier of usa, but it makes good business. I found almost every supplier said we want to do that as well because we see the value of doing it. But then the question was ho
You are still figuring out what needs to be done and you are needing an assistant. Men have to be lead parents or fully equal coparents. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. We have more on the u. S. Chamber of commerces summit on Job Opportunities for veterans. Up next, former first lady laura bush. She specifically focuses on Military Spouses and the challenges they face. Attendees also hear from congressional medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, labor secretary tom perez and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral james winfield. This is just under two hours. Good morning, im the executive director of the institute for military families and i would like to welcome my friend mark here from deloitte and ill i guess ill say first its humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush but is to spend just ten minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action. A recap of where weve been relative to vets em ploimt and also what may lie ahead. Challenge chal
Evention of the awkward or unfair laws have happened. That doesnt speak specifically to dominicans but thats a very specific experience that i had in arizona. Theres an interesting demographic and economic shift taking place because Mexico Mexico is doing better. It is. The mexican economy is doing better than other Central American i mean, you have the horrible problem with the drug wars but in some of the Central American countries that are sending a lot of migrants theyre really fleeing, you know, terrible levels of violence. So some the jobs that mexican immigrants used to do are now being done by the the lowest jobs are being done by Central Americans. And the interesting thing about the Child Migrants is that, you know, first they had to endure this, you know, very dangerous journey from Central America through mexico and then get over the border. But the interesting thing is that they get kind of dumped into this system of where they have the possibility of asking for asylum eve
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