When veterans return home, the fight to protect our freedom might be over, but the battle for a better education has just begun. More military students are taking advantage of their educational benefits, especially students enrolling in graduate programs. Before 2008, only 22 percent of graduate military students were using these benefits, but after the Post-9/11 GI Bill passed in 2009, the number of [...]
Lt. Colonel John “Jack” Adams easily remembers the hours he spent with fellow Captains Joseph Narbut and Dennis Kern as they traveled more than 100 miles round-trip two days a week in his beige Volkswagen Beetle to attend class at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. The trio was in the first class of students earning their Master’s of Business Administration degree through [...]
The defense industry is big business in Utah - over $9 billion each year according to new research from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. That's about 109,000 jobs supported directly or indirectly by the defense industry within the state and roughly 6 percent of total state jobs. Read more about the data collected and what it means for Utah's economy in the Deseret News and [...]
Military spouses who are struggling to find jobs cost society anywhere from $710 million to $1.07 billion a year, according to a new study. The study — commissioned by Blue Star Families, conducted by the Sorenson Impact Center at the Eccles School and funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation — found that difficult employment situations are causing unemployment and underemployment for spouses of those [...]