The Daily Caller
By Caroline May
Published: 12:33 AM 03/31/2012
One of the country’s foremost veterans groups is encouraging legislators to make veterans a protected class and candidates for affirmative action.
“All we are asking, basically, is for the [Federal Equal Employment] Law to be extended to say the two words ‘and veterans.’ It doesn’t have to be a big 3,000-page bill,” Stewart Hickey, executive director of AMVETS, told The Daily Caller. “All they have to do is add the words ‘and veterans’ to all those other protected classes.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/31/advocacy-group-urges-affirmative-action-for-veterans/#ixzz1qthMEman
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