Veteran employment and entrepreneurship

The American Legion's Mark Walker and Phillip Selleh from the VA Business Accelerator will discuss programs and initiatives to help veterans find jobs. September...

September 13, 2013 — This week on “Fed Access”, Mark Walker, deputy director of the Economic Division at the American Legion, and Phillip Selleh, program manager for the VA Business Accelerator, join host Derrick Dortch to talk about how their organizations are helping veterans find jobs or start their own businesses.

Walker and Selleh explain how their programs work and talk about the challenges facing veterans who leave the military and join the civilian workforce.

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