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Military spouses angry that DoD halts job grants - Houston Chronicle

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 11:23 AM PST

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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Military spouses were enthusiastic when the government started offering them grants last year of up to $6,000 for college or career training. Word spread quickly and they signed up by the tens of thousands.

But the response was so heavy that it nearly busted the fledgling program's budget, prompting the Defense Department to suspend it abruptly last week.

That has triggered outrage from spouses of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen, a group that can use extra help on the jobs front because their frequent moves hamper careers.

More than 1,200 military spouses have joined a Facebook group to vent their outrage and share letters to their congressmen. Others are proposing a protest rally in Washington or Norfolk, Va.

They say they're stunned that a rare perk offered specifically to military spouses would be snatched away. And they're furious that officials shut down the program without warning and with little explanation.

"The DOD showed lack of respect for the spouses," said Rebecca Duncan, wife of a Navy sailor stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas. "To me this was a huge slap in our faces."

A Defense Department spokeswoman on Thursday was unable to provide to The Associated Press figures for the program's budget and how much money was spent.

While the grants are still paying for classes and training for thousands already enrolled, 36-year-old Duncan says the shutdown left her in limbo.

Duncan had been approved for a grant to pursue an applied sciences degree, which would qualify her for a pay raise in her job as a medical office assistant. She learned from her college counselor that the grants had been halted before she could sign up for classes, which began Wednesday.

The program — called Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts, or MyCAA — started in March 2009. Spouses of active-duty military service members and of reservists called to active duty could apply for up to $6,000 to pay for college tuition or costs associated with professional licenses and certificates.

The program aimed to help military wives and husbands overcome obstacles to finding jobs, a hot-button issue because military families relocate every three years on average.

That makes some employers hesitant to hire military spouses and means they often don't keep jobs long enough to earn promotions and raises.

A 2005 Rand Corp. study found that military spouses are less likely to be employed, more likely to be seeking work, and earn less than those married to someone in the civilian work force.

"This was a program that was designed to recognize the unique challenges military spouses face in developing and maintaining careers," said Joy Dunlap, a family advocate for the Military Officers Association of America. "It was like, yes, they recognize us! They realize what we're experiencing and they want to help us."

About 98,000 military spouses were enrolled in the program when it was suspended, the Defense Department said, and 38,000 more had applied.

Tommy T. Thomas, the deputy undersecretary for defense who oversees MyCAA, says the response was unexpected.

"These applications were overwhelming the system intended to support the program and almost reached the budget threshold," Thomas said in a statement Wednesday.

The Defense Department says it approved six times more grant applications in January than it had in previous months, and that demand for February was also well above average.

The military says more than 681,000 Americans are married to active-duty service members. A 2007 Defense Department survey showed 46 percent of spouses of enlisted personnel held civilian jobs, while 9 percent were unemployed but looking for work.

Thomas says the shutdown is temporary, but there's no word on when the program might resume or whether the benefit will face cuts.

While MyCAA is suspended, the Defense Department has suggested military spouses consider alternatives to paying for college — such as the new GI Bill, a benefit service members can now transfer to their spouses and children.

However, spouses said they don't like that option. First, the GI Bill isn't an option for everybody — military personnel must have six years in the service, and recommit for four more years, before they're eligible to transfer the benefit to their families.

Also, the GI Bill pays for 36 months of college per family. Many military service members need to reserve that benefit for themselves, or want to save it for their children.

"My husband has earned that," said Cammy Elquist LoRe, whose husband is an Army infantry officer at Fort Carson, Colo. "He deserves that and I don't want to take it away from him."

LoRe said the suspension of the MyCAA program halted her plans to work toward a masters degree in organizational leadership at the University of the Rockies. She had applied for the grant and hoped to get classes under way while her husband can still help care for their 2 1/2-year-old son before he deploys to Afghanistan next year.

Thomas said the program would continue to pay previously approved financial benefits to spouses. But several said that doesn't help much in the long run, because the money is paid out piecemeal before each term of classes rather than as a lump sum.

Laura Heitink, the wife of a Marine Corps recruiter in Carlisle, Penn., said MyCAA had been paying since September for classes toward her degree in health care administration. When she went to sign up for her next course last week, she was told the program wouldn't pay for it.

Heitink said she used her tax refund check to pay $750 for the class, not wanting to stop again after putting her college education on hold three times previously because of military transfers.

"Military spouses, we want a career, but it's hard when you have to move around," said Heitink, 31. "When we first moved here I went on nine job interviews. Doctors would say to me, `Well, I want to hire you, but I don't know how long you'll be here.'"

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Russ Bynum has covered the military based in Georgia since 2001.

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Posted: 21 Feb 2010 05:26 PM PST

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PITTSBURGH, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innovative Recruiting Group will bring local job seekers and employers together at an intimate job fair focused on placing qualified applicants with key local employers.

"In the last quarter of 2009, the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) added 600 jobs and the unemployment rate fell for the first time since the beginning of the current recession (down from 8.3 percent to 7.9 percent)"

This Showcase Career Expo will take place on Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 11:00am to 3:00pm in the Grand Court at the Mall at Robinson.

More than a dozen companies offering administration, information technology, sales, healthcare, accounting, customer service, insurance positions, and more will be attending the job fair. This event is FREE for job seekers, who are being encouraged to "Shop for their next job."

Bettis Laboratories, the featured sponsor, will be exhibiting at the career expo along with Dollar Bank, Aflac, EDMC, American Textile, The Callos Companies, and other leading companies.

In January 2009, a total of 750,000 jobs were lost nationally. While the job market is beginning to rebound – the number of jobs lost dropped to 20,000 in January 2010 – job fairs such as the Showcase Career Expo are critical to the local economy. Innovative Recruiting Group's local job fair events reintroduce a "human" element into what has too often become an impersonal online recruiting process.

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"In the last quarter of 2009, the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) added 600 jobs and the unemployment rate fell for the first time since the beginning of the current recession (down from 8.3 percent to 7.9 percent)," said Lauren Nimal, Industry & Business Analyst, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. "The Pittsburgh MSA's diverse job base has helped the area's unemployment rate consistently fare better than the Pennsylvania unemployment rate."

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Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:31 PM PST

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Robert J. Myers, an actuary who helped to create the Social Security program and to set America's official retirement age at 65, died Feb. 13 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 97.

The cause was respiratory failure, said his granddaughter Juliet Myers Wolfe.

In 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Mr. Myers was unexpectedly offered a six-week stint on the Committee on Economic Security, a Roosevelt administration panel that was drawing up blueprints for America's first comprehensive social insurance programs.

The six-week job turned out to be a career that spanned decades and placed Mr. Myers at the center of America's great debates about the government's role in the economy and how to create public safety nets affordably. Actuaries measure risks, and for much of his career Mr. Myers was concerned with the risk that the government might build an old-age program that promised more than it could deliver.

"His name and career are inseparable from the history of Social Security," said Jeremy Gold, an actuary in New York who is active in the profession's intense, if esoteric, debates about how to measure the costs of an aging population.

Congress and the Roosevelt administration wanted the Social Security program to be self-supporting — financed solely through payroll taxes and investment earnings, not general government revenues. Mr. Myers was asked to figure out the age at which people should stop working and start drawing benefits, to make the system pay for itself.

His initial calculations showed that the right age was 67. By the time the Social Security Act was signed into law in 1935, however, the age had been lowered to 65.

"Why is it 65? Why not?" Mr. Myers wrote in a 1992 memoir, "Within the System, My Half Century in Social Security." "That age has been credited to — or blamed on — German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. In truth, he didn't do it."

Bismarck in fact selected 70 as the minimum qualifying age when he established the world's first social security system in 1889.

"Age 65 was picked because 60 was too young and 70 was too old," Mr. Myers wrote. "So we split the difference."

Mr. Myers served as Social Security's chief actuary from 1947 to 1970, when he resigned in protest after publishing a signed article in Reader's Digest, warning that "expansionists" in government threatened to "steer Social Security down a dangerously unsound financial course."

He said he thought civil servants in the Social Security Administration had become politicized and were colluding with Democrats in Congress to undercut the Nixon administration's initiatives. He considered himself a moderate Republican, but argued that actuarial science was supposed to be politically neutral.

Mr. Myers served as a consultant to various federal agencies and Congressional panels until 1982, when he was named deputy Social Security commissioner by President Ronald Reagan. He resigned again in protest the next year, citing "disastrous" meddling by the Office of Management and Budget, which had proposed changes in the program that Mr. Myers thought would penalize the poor.

In 1983, he was made the executive director of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, a bipartisan body led by Alan Greenspan that sought to correct a severe deficit in the program, caused by the weak economy of the 1970s.

The Greenspan Commission, as it was known, recommended a number of measures, like enrolling federal employees in Social Security and taxing the benefits. Congress also enacted a minority proposal, to phase in an increase in the Social Security retirement age, so that Americans born after 1960 must now wait until they turn 67 to get their full benefits.

The changes helped strengthen the program in the short term, but by the mid-1990s the financial imbalance had reappeared.

When policy makers then began to talk about "privatizing" Social Security as a painless fix, Mr. Myers was aghast.

"To me, the translation of the word 'privatization' is 'destroyed,' " he told a Social Security Administration historian, Larry DeWitt, in an interview for the administration's archives in 1996. "If it won't do it immediately, it will do it inevitably."

Robert Julius Myers was born in Lancaster, Pa., on Oct. 31, 1912, the son of Laurence B. Myers and Edith Hirsh Myers. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.

After moving to Washington in 1934 he lived at the Y.M.C.A. and met his wife, Ruth McCoy, known as Rudy, at a mixer with Y.W.C.A. residents. The couple married in 1938 and had two sons, Jonathan Myers of Philadelphia and Eric Myers of Wheaton, Ill., who survive him, as do three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs. Myers died in 1995.

Mr. Myers thought that an accident of geography had landed him on the Committee on Economic Security in 1934. He had just received his master's degree in actuarial science from the University of Iowa, could find no jobs and had moved back home to Philadelphia, when he received a letter from a former professor saying that of all his unemployed students, Mr. Myers lived closest to Washington, where there was a temporary job for a junior actuary.

"My principal qualification, therefore, was geography," Mr. Myers said, "because most of the other students were from the Midwest."

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Welcome to the offseason. The Dallas Cowboys finished the year 11-5 and won their first playoff game since 1996, but owner/general manager Jerry Jones said the team is not going to rest on its laurels thinking that it's arrived. Several big decisions have to be made this offseason. What do you do with Miles Austin? Should the team trade Marion Barber or Tashard Choice? How can Jason Garrett get Roy Williams to produce?

The fans have spoken, and in our first mailbag of the offseason they want to know about those Randy Moss rumors, whether Barber should be traded and what the Cowboys are looking for in the draft.

Q: Do you think the Cowboys should get rid of Marion Barber? -- J.R. (Dallas)
A:
Direct and to the point, that's how we like it. I've gone back and forth on this issue. Barber did not have a good year. He was average with his 932 rushing yards and seven touchdowns. He didn't break as many tackles as he did last season, produced only one 100-yard game and went over 90 yards just twice. In his defense, he battled leg and hand injuries. But still, he averaged over 4 yards per carry just once in the last five weeks of the season.

It will be hard to cut Barber because he's due a $4 million bonus this spring, whether he's on the roster or not. Plus, his base salary is $3.86 million for 2010. If you trade Barber, somebody has to pick up that contract. So expect Barber to return.

Q: How can an offensive line that looked so dominant most of the season crack so easily against the Minnesota Vikings? The offensive line held up against some really good defensive lines last year but looked so out of place against the Purple People eaters. Would drafting an offensive lineman in the first round really help that much? Or should they maybe bring in a guard to take the place of a tight end on some plays like the New Orleans Saints did a lot with Zach Strief? -- Tyler Maples (Boston)

A: The offensive line was just OK, I wouldn't say great. I just think the Vikings pass rushers were just better than the Cowboys protection in that playoff game. If you remember, it was Marc Colombo's second game back from surgery and Flozell Adams got hurt in that game. Some would say Adams made a "business decision" by not returning in the second half of that game.

Adams, the left tackle, played better than we expected in 2009, and Doug Free, the right tackle who replaced Colombo, outplayed the veteran. Free has a future and Jerry Jones said Free practiced at both tackle spots last year. Behind Free, the depth isn't very good.

Pat McQuistan, Duke Preston and Cory Procter were all on the active roster and didn't give the organization high hopes for the future. Expect a draft pick to be used on an offensive linemen, probably a guard, in the first two rounds.

Q: Hey Mr. Watkins, what do you think of trading Marion Barber for a draft pick and then signing Reggie Bush? Bush will give the Cowboys a punt and kick returner that they were missing last year. Not a big fan of Patrick "Fair Catch" Crayton as a punt returner. Would just like your opinion on this. Thank you. -- German Osorio (Corpus Christi, Texas)

A: German, I don't think the Cowboys will trade Barber and sign Reggie Bush. It makes no sense. Now if you want to get a punt returner -- the team tried Felix Jones at the position and he struggled to catch a punt -- then that's fine. Patrick Crayton and Terence Newman have primarily returned punts, even when the great Pacman Jones was here (that's a joke). Crayton averaged 12.1 yards a punt last year and returned two for touchdowns.

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Would you like somebody faster than Crayton returning punts? Sure. But it's all about the blocking scheme, and special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis uses one to create holes for returners. I'm sure that of the safeties, wide receivers and cornerbacks they look at in the draft, if those guys can return punts, then I would think it increases their chances of getting drafted.

Q: Is there any truth to the Randy Moss-to-Cowboys trade rumor? -- Johnie Moreno (Sumter, S.C.)

A: Not to my knowledge.

Q: I have heard rumors that the Cowboys might make a push to get Randy Moss. What would they have to give up, and is that even a possibility? Also, if this does happen, would that give Romo another target that needs the ball, similar to Terrell Owens -- Jared (Fort Myers, Fla.)

A: Wow, another question about Randy Moss. Look, it's not going to happen. The Cowboys have Roy Williams and his $45 million contract. Miles Austin, coming off a Pro Bowl season, is the No. 1 receiver. He expects a big payday, and I would guess he might get an average salary of $6 million per season. The team likes young wideout Kevin Ogletree and values veteran Patrick Crayton. Say you traded for Moss. What do you give up? A first-rounder? A second-rounder? Then you've got to pay Moss more than Williams because, let's be honest, he's better than Williams. I asked an agent who has several wide receivers as clients about the Moss-to-Cowboys rumor. He said he hasn't heard it.

Q: Please ask Jerry Jones: How can Drew Pearson not be in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor? He made more big catches than any Cowboys receiver (including the other No. 88, Michael Irvin). He made the Pro Bowl five times in the 70s, was named to the all-decade team and was named as one of the 20 best receivers of all time. He really should be in the Hall of Fame -- should at least be in the Ring of Honor. I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter. -- Richard Weaver (Lufkin, Texas)

A: Jerry Jones said he wouldn't put anybody into the Ring of Honor in the first year of the new stadium but is open to doing so in the second. I'm stunned Pearson isn't in the Ring of Honor, I think there were some personal issues between Pearson and Jones that have since subsided that kept him out. Pearson would be No. 1 on my list of people to put in there.

Q: What are the chances that the Cowboys try to sign a free-agent free safety, like ... Ryan Clark or whoever else is available? -- Mitchell (Raleigh, N.C.)

A: Ken Hamlin did not have a good season -- "average" is the word one front office person used when describing Hamlin to me. Hamlin produced 74 total tackles, according to the coach's stats, no interceptions and four passes defended. He had the sixth-highest salary cap number for players at his position last year at $5.8 million.

Hamlin did miss four games with a high-ankle sprain. However, he didn't make enough plays on the ball. This season, Hamlin is scheduled to make $5.59 million in base salary. He's one player the Cowboys have to consider cutting, but if you cut somebody, who replaces him? That's the issue.

Alan Ball filled in for Hamlin and wasn't that bad, but can he do it full-time? I don't see the Cowboys getting into free agency to sign Clark or find another unrestricted free agent. If they draft one in the third day of the draft, that might be smart. Nothing wrong with getting younger.

Q: Hey man ... I'm a big fan of yours and always enjoy reading your work. I'm probably the biggest Cowboys fan up here in Minnesota, and our biggest concern this offseason is probably finding a field goal kicker. Mr. Watkins, how should we address this issue? Should we find a reliable one in free agency? Should we draft someone in the later rounds of the draft? We can't afford to lose close games next year because of bad FG kicking. Thanks! -- Jeff Cook (Pine Island, Minn.)
A:
Thanks, Jeff, I've never been to Pine Island, but I had fun the last time I was in Minneapolis. To the kicker issue, it will be addressed but not in the draft or free agency. The Cowboys are hoping David Buehler wins the field-goal job this season. They've brought in Chris Boniol to help Buehler get his timing down. Buehler was telling me the other day the reason he struggled to kick was he stopped doing it in practice because the team had Nick Folk. But when Folk struggled during the middle portions of the season, Buehler had trouble finding a rhythm when he attempted field goals.

Buehler had a plan of starting to practice field goals this last week and said he will compete for the job with Connor Hughes. The Cowboys like Buehler's leg. I saw him make a 60-yarder in practice last year, and if he gets his timing and technique down -- something Boniol will help him with -- he will be the field goal kicker in 2010, unless Hughes beats him out.

Q: Why can't Jerry Jones let somebody who knows about drafting pick, instead of letting us look like fools? He proved he does not know how to draft players. As long as he's owner-GM-president, the team will not be better and I'm sorry, coach Phillips is just not the answer, nor is Jason Garrett. I can watch the game at home and know what he's going to call. Thanks, CW, for listening. -- Ron (Houston)

A: This is an old argument. Jerry Jones is the owner/general manager and is not going anywhere. The perception is that Jones doesn't listen to anybody and drafts players without input. That's not true. In fact, he had to talk Bill Parcells into drafting DeMarcus Ware, and we all know what type of player Ware is. Was the 2009 draft special? Nope, but how many teams on a consistent basis have great drafts every year? As far as Wade Phillips is concerned, I think the defense was solid. Mike Jenkins and Terence Newman each went to Pro Bowls, inside linebacker Keith Brooking and defensive end Igor Olshansky had strong seasons, Jay Ratliff went to another Pro Bowl, Jason Hatcher and Stephen Bowen, two backup defensive linemen produced. And how could we forget Anthony Spencer's breakout year in 2009? Spencer had six sacks, 36 quarterback pressures and nine tackles for loss. All these things occurred under Phillips.

Now, Jason Garrett, that's another story. His play-calling is questionable at times, and he still doesn't know how to get Roy Williams the ball on a consistent basis. Garrett did help quarterback Tony Romo improve. Overall, the offense was OK but could have been better.

Q: What are the chances of releasing Roy Williams for a more productive WR? -- Henry (Fredericksburg, Va.)
A:
They will not cut Williams. Let me say this again, so everybody understands: They will not release Williams. Has he produced like the Cowboys would hope? No. But Jerry Jones said he thinks the coaches, mainly offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, and Williams himself had to get this fixed. Also, Williams told me he would be shocked if he was cut after the 2009 season. If Williams has another bad year, he expects to get cut.

Financially, it's a bad move for the Cowboys. Williams' contract calls for him to get a guaranteed $9.5 million bonus and a $3.4 million base salary for 2010. Both figures are guaranteed if Williams is on the roster or not. It will be difficult, almost impossible, to get another team to trade for that contract. The best you can hope for is for Williams to produce better numbers than what he's had in the past and for Miles Austin, Patrick Crayton and Kevin Ogletree to pick up their production.

Q: Mr Watkins, what would possess you to compare Tony Dorsett and Emmitt Smith (both undeniably great) to the Chicago Bears' Walton Payton and Neal Anderson? Clearly, Gayle Sayers is the other Chicago halfback to include. The rushing yards may not be there, but I doubt that many people outside Dallas would agree that your duo is equal to either of Chicago's two elite, and clearly the Bears' combo is vastly superior to Dallas'. Sayers and Payton are the greatest RB duo of any franchise that I can think of. Smith and Dorsett fall somewhere far behind. -- Graham Englund (Louisville, Ky)

A: I wrote a story about Emmitt Smith and Tony Dorsett being the greatest running back combo in league history. They have the numbers, but is Smith better than Gayle Sayers? Nope. The reason I didn't include Sayers and Walter Payton is because Sayers' career was shortened by injury. In seven NFL seasons, Sayers rushed for 4,956 yards and 39 touchdowns. He was great, that's why he's in the Hall of Fame. I probably should have mentioned that in my story from the Hall of Fame selection show.

Q: What do you think the outcome of next season will be? -- Luis Villanueva (San Antonio)

A: That's a tough one to answer. I would think the Cowboys will be the favorites to win the NFC East again. I do believe Dallas is better than the Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. You could project the Cowboys to win 10-11 games in 2010. How they handle the last half of their season is an issue. They addressed this year by going 3-2 in the last five weeks of the year.

Calvin Watkins covers the Dallas Cowboys for ESPN Dallas. You can follow him on Twitter or leave a question for his weekly mailbag.

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