Jill Biden Woos Military Families with Plan to Improve Spouse Unemployment – By Dorothy Mills-Gregg (Military.com) / March 18 2020
The American Dream extends to military families, but more needs to be done to address spouse unemployment and children’s access to quality education, former second lady Jill Biden said in a virtual meeting Monday.
As the Joe Biden presidential campaign turns virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jill Biden appealed to military families in a phone call by presenting her husband’s policies and telling the story of her father — a Navy signalman in World War II who used the GI Bill to go to business school and eventually became a bank president.
“That was my family’s American Dream,” she said. “Where, in one generation, the son of an immigrant could join the middle class. Where, if you worked hard, you could have a career that made you proud.”
But Biden said this prosperity must include military families, adding that she’s concerned about the nearly 30% unemployment rate for highly educated military spouses and poor mental health care options for military families.
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