WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan issued the following press release:
In case you missed it, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) to expand access to job counseling services for Gold Star and surviving spouses. The Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act increases access to job counseling services through the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program to spouses of service members who died while serving in the military or of a service-connected disability. The program provides every state with funding to hire dedicated workforce specialists to provide individualized career counseling support with localized knowledge to eligible veterans, and this bipartisan bill expa...