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Supporting America's Veterans: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on helping veterans succeed in civilian jobs, a bakery that doubles as a business school, Black Americans’ military service, and more.
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Nov 11, 2022

Veterans Employment

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Dog Tag Bakery: A Fresh Start for Veterans
A bakery in Washington, D.C., brings together service-disabled post–9/11 veterans, military spouses, and caregivers. For five months, they are immersed in an intensive entrepreneurial-focused business program. It's become a model for helping veterans and others in the military community reestablish their lives.
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Nov 1, 2022
Health and Wellness Promotion

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Military Spouses, Exercise Incentives, Libraries: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on a scholarship program for military spouses, a wellness program that uses the Apple Watch, how libraries can improve public health, and more.
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Nov 30, 2018
Military Health and Health Care

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Tools for Coping with a Military Spouse's Drinking
A new research study and web program, Partners Connect, was launched in September to help military spouses concerned about a loved one's drinking.
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Oct 5, 2015
SpouseBUZZ
Karen Chan Osilla
Military Spouses

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Dear Military Spouses: I'm Sorry
Kayla Williams describes her difficult transition from soldier to spouse, sergeant to civilian, team leader to caregiver. Two books by military wives opened her eyes to the challenges and rewards of marrying into the military, and the unique kind of service military families experience.
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Feb 27, 2014
The Huffington Post
Kayla M. Williams @KWilliams101

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Military Spouses

Supporting America's Veterans: RAND Weekly Recap

Dog Tag Bakery: A Fresh Start for Veterans

Military Spouses, Exercise Incentives, Libraries: RAND Weekly Recap

Tools for Coping with a Military Spouse's Drinking

Dear Military Spouses: I'm Sorry

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