{"id":717,"date":"2015-06-29T20:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/?p=717"},"modified":"2015-06-30T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:37:41","slug":"tech-industry-to-train-hire-90k-military-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/tech-industry-to-train-hire-90k-military-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Industry To Train &#038; Hire 90K Military Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp., Cisco and Oracle are among firms making the commitment, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The first lady also said the private sector had far exceeded a challenge President Barack Obama issued in August 2011 to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama said more than 850,000 veterans and military spouses had been hired by U.S. businesses in the four years since the president set the hiring goal.<\/p>\n<p>The 850,000 is on top of the 30 percent of the federal workforce that is made up of veterans, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an amazing accomplishment, it really is, and I am so grateful to everyone across this country who made it possible,\u201d Mrs. Obama said at Micron Technology, a Manassas, Virginia-based manufacturer of memory storage devices.<\/p>\n<p>The company hires and trains veterans for its workforce. It also participates in a pilot program that matches student veterans who attend local universities and community college with high-tech companies throughout the area, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Michelle Obama: Tech industry to train, hire 90K military vets\" href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2015\/04\/24\/michelle-obama-tech-industry-train-hire-90k-military-veterans\/\"><strong>Read complete article at The Grio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp., Cisco and Oracle are among firms making the commitment, she said. The first lady also said the private sector had far exceeded a challenge President Barack Obama issued in August 2011 to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by 2013. Mrs. Obama said more than 850,000 veterans and military spouses had been hired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[41,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Veterans-v1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pLGr-bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willoughbyavenue.com\/letsbelifted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}