Bill Text: IL HR0521 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Encourages the Illinois Department of Employment Security to create a website modeled after the State of Missouri's "Show Me Heroes" website to help put more veterans back to work.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia [HR0521 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0521-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Veterans have sacrificed their livelihoods and | ||||||
| 3 | oftentimes their careers to defend our nation's freedom; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, According to the United States Department of | ||||||
| 5 | Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, among the 573,000 | ||||||
| 6 | unemployed veterans nationwide in 2014, 59% were ages 45 and | ||||||
| 7 | over, 37% were ages 25 to 44, and 4% were ages 18 to 24; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, In 2014, the unemployment rate of veterans varied | ||||||
| 9 | by state, ranging from 1.4% in North Dakota to 8.5% in | ||||||
| 10 | Maryland; Illinois has one of the highest veteran unemployment | ||||||
| 11 | rates in the nation; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report | ||||||
| 13 | released on March 18, 2015, Illinois has the 8th highest | ||||||
| 14 | unemployment rate of veterans in the United States; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois should be a leader at | ||||||
| 16 | providing all the resources necessary to help unemployed | ||||||
| 17 | veterans get back to work; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, The State of Missouri maintains a one-of-a-kind | ||||||
| 19 | website to help put unemployed veterans back to work, called | ||||||
| 20 | "Show Me Heroes"; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 2 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 3 | encourage the Illinois Department of Employment Security to | ||||||
| 4 | create a website modeled after the State of Missouri's "Show Me | ||||||
| 5 | Heroes" website to help put more veterans back to work; and be | ||||||
| 6 | it further
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| 7 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 8 | delivered to Governor Bruce Rauner and the Director of | ||||||
| 9 | Employment Security.
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