Colin Archipley, a former marine who served in Iraq, is the co-founder and CEO of the farm Archi’s Acres and the Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training program. Before participating in a panel on creating jobs for veterans, he talked about kale, He-Man, and the pleasures of flying by the seat of your pants in the Zócalo green room.
We’ve reached a New Normal in California employment. It’s defined by three trends: intense competition for almost any job; the replacement of full time employment by gig work; and increasing …
Raymond Toenniessen is director of new initiatives and external relations at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University and a veteran of the Iraq War. Before participating …
Jim Cragg is the president and founder of Green Vets Los Angeles—a nonprofit that hires veterans to make reusable shopping bags—chief executive of defense contractor Special Operations Technologies Inc., and …
More than 6 million private sector workers in California may be about to enroll in a retirement plan—whether they like it or not.
Legislation signed last fall by Governor Jerry Brown …
The 2 million veterans who are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan have had their lives changed by war. As they come home, they have the potential to change the …
As the military drawdown in Afghanistan continues, the United States will add an additional 80,000 veterans from the Army alone to the civilian workforce. This is on top of the …
The color photograph that appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine on March 22, 1948, shows a solitary wheelchair athlete, his right arm cocked as if he’s about to pass …
Should California recruit more military veterans to move here?
If that question seems ridiculous, it’s only because we have some mistaken ideas about both California and veterans.
The first common but incorrect …
On an unremarkable Wednesday evening in the spring of 1948, 15,561 spectators flocked to New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch two teams of World War II veterans play an …
