. >> we are challenging the private sector to hire and train 100,000 unemployed post september 11th veterans or spouses by 2013. the president is asking congress to approve what he is calling the returning hero's tax kred $2400 for hiring a vet less out of work for six months and $2800 for those out of work for more than a year at $9600 for disabled veterans. >> i think it say great plan. >> reporter: nick says he is grateful for whatever help veterans get after serving their country. he just wants a job. >> i am ready to learn, ready to train for it, ready to work hard. just ready to do it. get back into the workforce and support my family. >> reporter: this proud marine hopes the tax incentive will help him do just that. reporting live, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> u.s. soldiers will be spending less time deployed to iraq and afghanistan and other war zones. the army announced they will cut the leapt from one year to -- length from one year to nine months. it will not apply to those in high demand like aviation. soldiers have been on a constant cycle of deployment with short sti

we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans or their spouses by 2013. >> the unemployment rate is an atrocious 9.1%. the unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans is worse, 12.1% this month. >> one of our veterans who returned home with a sudden unemployment was specialist nick colgin, an army medic. >> when nick was in afghanistan he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. over the course of his deployment, nick saved the life of a french soldier who was shot in the head and helped 42 people escape from a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions, but when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn't get a job as a first responder, so he ended up taking classes through the post-9/11 g.i. bill that he could have easily taught, just to qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing in afghanistan. if you can save a life in afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance in wyoming. the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad, they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans, you fought

we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans or theirhe end of 2013. >> nbc news special correspondent tom brokaw has been reporting on three families as they experience the iraq war since even before it began. an iraqi-american family returning to rebuild their homeland. an iraqi family who lived under the tyranny of saddam hussein. and an person soldier who found in the iraq war and is trying to get back on his feet. >> four mants before the war began i met george weaver. he was training his platoon with a growing sense of mission because a sense of conflict with iraq was in the air. do you ever allow yourself to think i might get hurt or i may not come back? >> of course. >> his wife, dawn, a special ed teacher shared those fears. >> what happens if i do lose him? what am i going to do? how am i going to mentally prepare myself and how am i going to explain that to my kids? >> march 19, 2003, the u.s. attacked baghdad with massive force to shock and awe saddam hussein into submission. the fighting became intense as weaver and his unit

we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans or theiruses by 2013. >> the unemployment rate is an atrocious 9.1%. the unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans is worse, 12.1% this month. one veteran was specialist nick colgin, an army medic. >> when nick was in afghanistan he served as a combat medic with the 82nd airborne. over the course of his deployment, nick saved the life of a french soldier who was shot in the head and helped 42 people escape from a flooding river. he earned a bronze star for his actions, but when nick got back home to wyoming, he couldn't get a job as a first responder, so he ended up taking classes through the post-9/11 g.i. bill just so he could qualify for the same duties at home that he was doing every single day in afghanistan. if you can save a life in afghanistan, you can save a life in an ambulance in wyoming. the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad, they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans, you fought for us, and now we're fighting for you. >> joining us now here in st

finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. this bill is on commitment to companies have made as part of the joining forces campaign championed by my wife, michelle, and dr. jill biden. sea mens hired 300 veterans, so they're aiming to hire more by december. microsoft is helping more than 10,000 veterans get i.t. certified over the next two years. and today, groups from the u.s. chamber of commerce to accenture to lockheed martin have all agreed to do their part to help veterans get back in the workforce. the bottom line is this -- we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to get folks the economic security and opportunity they deserve. and that begins with connecting americans looking for work, including our veterans, with employers looking to hire. over the last few years, another generation of young veterans has learned that the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans, you fought for us, and now we're f

. >> we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans or theirpouses by the end of 2013. >> meantime military officials tell nbc news deployment lengths for most u.s. soldiers serving in war zones will drop from 12 months to 9 starting with those sent after january 1st. time at home between deployments will also increase. the army is expected to make an official announcement as early as some time today. joining me nbc military analyst and medal of honor recipient, retired general jack jacobs. what do you think of the changes we're seeing? >> i think they were going to occur naturally. we're accelerating our withdraw from afghanistan and also iraq and for conventional troops, that means fewer deployments anyway. we're also reducing the size of the force. that means you're going to have fewer people who will be able to be deployed overseas. it's a long time coming, long overdue and very helpful but we're still going to have lots of special forces, special operation forces, s.e.a.l.s and the like still doing their deployments. >> with the nine-month

finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. this builds on commitments that many companies have already made as part of the joining forces campaign, championed by my wife, michelle, and dr. jill biden. seemans met their goal. microsoft is helping more than 10,000 veterans get its certified over the next two years. today, groups from the u.s. chamber of commerce to accenture to lockheed martin have all agreed to do their part to help get veterans back into the workforce. the bottom line is this, we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give them the economic security they deserve. that begins with connecting americans looking for work, including our veterans with employers looking to hire. over the last few years, another generation of young veterans has learned that the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today, we're saying to our veterans, you fought for us, and now we're fighting for you, for the jobs and opportunities that you n

and finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. this builds on commitments that many companies have already made as part of the joining forces campaign championed by my wife michelle and dr. jill biden. recently met their goal of hiring veterans, so they're aiming to hire 150 by december. microsoft is helping more than 10,000 veterans get i.t. certified over the next two years. and today groups from the u.s. chamber of commerce to accenture to lockheed martin have all agreed to do their part to help veterans get back in the workforce. the bottom line is this. we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give folks the economic security and opportunity they deserve. and that begins with connecting americans looking for work including our veterans with employers looking to hire. over the last few years, another generation of young veterans has learned that the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our veterans you fought f

. >> we are challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans or spouses by the end of 2013. this builds on commitments that many companies have already made as part of the joining forces campaign. >> the nation's unemployment rate dipped by one-tenth of a purse, but the joblessness is far worse for the men and women that fought for their country. about 1 million veterans are out of work, and that means a quarter of service members that joined the military after the 9/11 attacks. and then the veterans that joined post 9/11 is a staggering 13.3%, and that's the main reason why president obama met the executive director and founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. we are joined from d.c. with our guests. thank you so much for not only coming on the show and for serving the country. i want to review what the initiative includes. quickly with both of you. training to transition veterans to the civilian world, and veterans affairs and businesses, and also proposes what he calls returning heroes and wounded warriors tax credits so those that

finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veterans the end of 2013. this builds on commitments that many companies have already made as part of the joining forces campaign championed by my wife, michelle, and dr. jill biden. siemens, for example, recently met their goal of hiring 300 veterans, so they're aiming to hire 150 more by december. microsoft is helping more than 10,000 veterans get i.t.-certified over the next two years. and today groups from the u.s. chamber of commerce to accenture to lockheed martin have all agreed to do their part to help veterans get back in the work force. the bottom line is this: we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give folks the economic security and opportunity they deserve. and that begins with connecting americans looking for work -- including our veterans -- with employers looking to hire. over the last few years, another generation of young veterans has learned that the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad, they continue right here at home. today we're saying to our v

and finally, we're challenging the private sector to hire or train 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veteransr their spouses by the end of 2013. host: peter gaytan, one of the things that the president talked about was a returning veterans and wounded warrior tax credit. explain how that would work. guest: the tax credit that the president's proposing will allow those companies, employers, to benefit not only by hiring a veteran but to see a tax credit and that is an incentive for that company to hire and it could go from $2,400 tax credit all the way up to, i believe, $9,600 for that employer. now, that is a great incentive for an employer but i think we also need to explain the benefits of hiring a veteran without having to urge them through monetary issues -- proposals like this tax credit. what we need to do is educate our employers on how valuable a veteran can be in their workforce. they already understand the importance of being on time. they understand the importance of chain of command, of listening of what needs to be done and actually acting on it and getting it done and veterans h

finally, we are challenging the private sector to hire or trained 100,000 unemployed post-9/11 veteransr their spouses by the end of 2013. this bill has commitments many companies have already made as part of the campaign can be in -- championed by my wife, michelle, and jill biden. microsoft is helping more than 10,000 veterans deaget i.t.- certified. today, groups from the u.s. chamber of commerce to lockheed martin have all agreed to do their part to help veterans get back in the workforce. the bottom line is this -- we still have a long way to go, a lot of work to do to get folks the economic security and opportunity they deserve. that begins with connecting americans looking for work, including our veterans, with employers looking to hire. over the last few years, another generation of young veterans has learned that the challenges don't end in kandahar or baghdad. they continue right here at home. today we are saying to our veterans, you fought for us and now we are fighting for you, for the jobs and opportunities that you need to keep your family strong and to keep america compet

strong parting words from an awe bankruptly unemployed media columnist. >>> t"the huffington post" hadng into a scrap with conservative activist andrew breitbart. he was charged with doctoring a clip showing cbs's news new white house correspondent nora o'donnell saying this about the debt crisis. >> tough choices made by both sides in that potential agreement that was not reached, and we did not get that done. >> okay. it gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing. >> some people couldn't hear the first part of what o'donnell said, but you have democrats saying that thought o'donnell was expressing her personal opinion about the situation. well, breitbart, who once helped hu huffington create the site, asked her, you want a war, dolly? she didn't. huff took down the article and apologized to him. that mistake aside, "the huffington post" reached a milestone this week. readers have posted 100 million comments on its stories. the way in which arianna's site, now owned by aol, has engaged people in a dialogue is one of the secrets of its success. now, it sounded like a tantalizi

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> and one thing is the massive number of the long-term unemployed, and this is something you have written about quite a bit at the "huffington poste obstacles those folks are facing as they try to get back in the labor force? >> a new phenomenon that popped up in the last year is companies actually discriminating against people because they don't have jobs, and saying in job ads if you are unemployed you won't be considered or must be currently employed. but this could backfire. this might not be a smart strategy on the part of political strategists, beating up on the unemployed like this, because it's not the same as welfare recipients. the unemployed are not the same as poor people. to qualify for welfare you have to be poor, you have to have income below a certain threshold. we know that 70% of all the money that the government spends goes to families that make more than two times of the poverty threshold, and these are the people who vote, which is another key thing among poor folks. >> isn't the problem, rather than having a situation which the unemployed represent a lot of people who are cycling through unemployment at any

president obama expected to unveil a tax cut, a job posting infrastructure ideas and how to deal with the long-term unemployedthe speech is expected in early september. >> fears of a terrorist attack on the tenth anniversary of 911. >> the risk that we are especially concerned of is a lone wolf terrorist act. someone with a single weapon and being able to carry out a wide scale massacres like this or that we sought and norway recently. when you have one person that is a deranged or driven by a hateful ideology, they can do a lot of damage and it is a lot harder to trace those wolf operators. we are spending a lot of time monitoring and gathering information. i think that we generally have to stay volatile. little extra vigilance during 911. keep in mind the extraordinary progress we've made over the last couple of years in degrading al-qaeda as capabilities. they're a much weaker organization with was capabilities than they had in the last two- three years. the president says his administration is not let its guard down. >> much more ahead of the kron 4 morning news. whether and traffic on the other side of t

unemployed and that jumped almost 40% increase. almost half of the young people are out of work in spain. the second largest carrier in berlin has announced losses. they continue to struggle. they have not posted full-year profit since 2007. they hope that cost-cutting measures will help. high fuel prices and the effect of the unrest in africa weighed on the airline's earnings. >> one of the main earnings in egypt and tunisia is building a stable future. the economic challenges are huge. >> at the marketplace, things are not going very well. tourists have been avoided the country since it was rocked by revolution. in times like these, it is not possible for them to expand. they1 cannot get a bank loan. the financial fund is set to change that. this will help egyptians a awell as to nations to inject new life. the german government is contributing 20 million euros to the initiative. >> there are people who are able to build a livelihood, one that does not justt open economic opportunities for them and their families but potential employees as well. >> this support would create new perspectives. 25% of down people in tunisia and egypt are jobless. >> thank you for that. activists in serious say

post office may add more people to the ranks of the unemployed in this country.aster is considering the elimination of 120,000 jobs. the postal service as w rep ow facing an $8 bls year over the past fo than 117,000 jobs have been cut as the mail service has simply lost business to the internet congress though would have to approve any new cuts. >>> verizon has asked the investigate more than 90 incidents theyey suspect may be acts of sabotage by striking wors. some 45,ple n the company's land line division walked off the job last week over company demands for give-backs. verizon executives say wires have been cut causing service the ing the ing h i >>> eight of the republicans running for president debated last night in iowa ahead of a key test vote in that state tomorrow. most of the sparks last night came from congresswoman michele bachmann and her fellow minnesotan tim pawlenty. much of the rest of the debate was heavily focused, though, on president obama. >> i'm not going to eat barack obama's dog food >> two we o send a me and the messagesis. you are finis

company to hire unemployed veterans, hiring a disabled vet vet can increase that to 9600s skpdz there is a reverse boot camp to transition back to civilian life. and some who held top posts now face a prospect of minimum wage job autos there are a lot of programs involved with them gegt out. i used a lot of them. and they're sporadic. have you to search yourselves. initial briefing is good information but then, you know it's on you to go back. >> and the white house estimates one million veterans are unemployed. >> president obama sign aid bill meaning thousands of construction workers will be going back to work. the stalemate costs the government and taxpayers, some hope to slash $16 million from the budget but resulting standoff ended up costing $390 million in lost tax revenue. that is about $30 million per day. details now on how the shut down continues to affect one project. >> the construction crew that should be there are not on the job building a new $31 million control nower. the project ground to a stand still thanks to congressional gridlock on the faa budget. and he says the new funding deal is a fixed blessing. >> not sure if we can start prot jekt quick as

washington post" that the president will propose, quote, tax cuts for companies that higher workers, new spending for roads and construction and other measures that would target the long-term unemployed. obama also plans to announce a major push for new deficit reduction, urging the special congressional super committee to identify savings in the $1.5 trillion it has been tasked with finding. joining me now to talk about this part of president obama's task is "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor ezra klein. thank you for joining me, ezra. >> good evening. >> you have been working hard today. maybe also as hard as the president. >> i don't know about that. >> so a memo by house majority leader eric cantor says, we have to put an end to this policy uncertainty, and that means we have to stop talking about new stimulus because we have no money for it. if the republican house is saying no stimulus money, what is the president going to be able to say that he can actually move through this house? >> well, he can't say much. he can give a speech, but i think we have found in the last couple of years, and political scientists like yourself have found over time, speeches don't do

post" last week. what the president is doing is not the same as what we're doing. we have real jobs to give real people who are unemployed is not one of those deals where we go around and talk about jobs and hope somebody gives us some press attention. that's a pretty harsh criticism of the president of the united states, the first african-american president to the united states from a leading african-american in the congress, is it not? >> well, i didn't get that he was directly talking about the president there. i'm not too sure that there aren't other tours taking place that might have been the point of reference. i was with emmanuel cleaver over the weekend, and we had long talks about what's going on with the congressional black caucus tomorrow in detroit, later on in miami, atlanta and then out in los angeles. just because we're ending the tour in los angeles doesn't mean the emphasis is not on los angeles as well. we started in cleveland, ohio. 7,000 people showed up. 20 -- 2200 people got connected with jobs. that's what cleaver was talking about, trying to bring employers and potential employees in to the same r