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Article: Job program for military spouses faces cash cuts.(Front)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Byline: NANCY ZUCKERBROD
WASHINGTON -- BY NANCY ZUCKERBROD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - When her husband's Air Force job took him to Colorado, Vydia Torres became a cashier just so she could join him even though her resume included stints as Puerto Rico's housing secretary and the head of a nonprofit group.
"I did not have the network," Torres says of her move in 1993. "I did not know the labor market." Military spouses face similar career dilemmas, she said, because they relocate so much.
Today, Torres l eads a Colorado Springs, Colo., program - also in place in a half-dozen communities nationwide - that helps military ...