(BPT) - Each year, approximately 200,000 men and women transition from the U.S. military to civilian life.1 It can be a dramatic life change with financial implications that many people don’t realize or plan for. Much attention is given...
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Purdue University
As the nation celebrates our 17 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the number of these heroes who are ending their own lives prematurely is rising.
In the general population, suicide is...
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
U.S. citizens who live abroad are a largely untapped voter pool big enough to decide the presidency.
In the 2000 contested presidential election, Republican candidate George W. Bush’s campaign relied on 680 overseas military ballots to...