Andrew Yang unveiled a wide-ranging proposal to improve services for veterans including updates to the education, employment and health care benefits troops receive after leaving the military
2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging proposal to improve services for veterans, including updates to the education, employment and health care benefits troops receive after leaving the military.One of the most significant changes would allow veterans to use skills they learned in the military to get civilian certifications required for certain jobs.
The plan also proposes several changes to veterans’ education benefits under the GI Bill, which helps veterans pay for college or graduate school. It would make veterans eligible for in-state tuition at any public school, regardless of how long they have lived in the state, and also calls for the broader program to be simplified.
Yang promises to cut the number of daily veterans suicides in half by the end of his first term as president, in part by increasing funding for veterans crisis lines and giving free gun safes to all veterans. The entrepreneur also promises several changes to the Veterans Affairs health care network — including allowing VA staff to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans and increasing salaries to fill staffing holes.
To end veteran homelessness, Yang would start a program similar to the census to find all homeless veterans and register them with the VA system to help them access employment programs and healthcare. Yang would also establish a “Reverse Boot Camp” that veterans would be required to attend upon leaving the military to make sure they are aware of the services available to them and to teach skills like grocery shopping, creating a resume and sticking to a daily schedule.
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