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Los Angeles Times – Mike Dalton starts his day at a Department of Veterans Affairs office in Oakland doing something he couldn’t do a year ago: He signs on to a computer and calls up [...]

Stars and Stripes – More than 85 percent of individuals surveyed said they had friends or family they could rely on to help with their challenges, and more than half said they believe they [...]

Government Executive –  Proposals to ban performance bonuses for senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department are unwarranted and damaging to VA’s mission, according to a [...]

WPSD-TV – Congress decided since the dynamic of war is changing, the services we offer veterans must evolve, too. The have mandated Veteran’s Affairs Medical Centers nationwide hold a [...]

The Washington Post – The 256,061 veterans appealing decisions represent an approximately 50 percent increase since President Obama took office. And more are coming. The Board of Veterans’ [...]

The Washington Post – The commander of the nation’s largest veterans organization warned lawmakers Tuesday that the Department of Veterans Affairs’ progress in reducing the size of the [...]

Stars and Stripes – The White House on Tuesday nominated the head of the USO to take over the No. 2 spot in the Department of Veterans Affairs.Sloan Gibson, who has served as president of [...]

House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs – The Department of Veterans Affairs provides a wealth of services for some 22 million American veterans, but a rash of preventable veteran [...]

The Washington Post –  The government hired 89,689 new employees in 2012, many of whom eventually will move into leadership positions at their agencies. They include the largest number of [...]

Stars and Stripes – The Department of Veterans Affairs spends more today in inflation adjusted dollars than it did after World War II and the Vietnam War, when millions of troops returned [...]