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The U.S. Census Bureau recently released an expanded version of the Veteran Employment Outcomes (VEO) data, offering insights into the earnings and employment outcomes of more than 2.8 million formerly enlisted service members. In this blog post, we explore what the data tell us about how honorably discharged veterans fare in the job market, including: Median earnings by military branch and sex Employment distribution over time by industry Veteran employment counts in North Carolina Median…
States typically benefit from having as much representation in Congress as possible. Each state is guaranteed two Senators, but the number of representatives each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives is based on population size. Representatives are reapportioned to the states every ten years, following the release of population counts from the decennial census. As the number of seats in the House of Representatives is fixed at 435, any change in the number…
2013 American Community Survey data estimates more than 681,000 veterans living in North Carolina. This is a notable decrease from 2012, when an estimated 720,500 veterans were living in the state. Since the non-veteran NC population is not decreasing, the proportion of North Carolina veteran residents decreased from 9.8% of the total state population to 9.1% from 2012 to 2013. Click here to view last year’s NC veteran data snapshot. The decline of North Carolina’s veteran…
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