'America Wants You' to Hire Veterans

The veterans’ organization America Wants You has launched a PR campaign calling out corporate executives to make “a top priority” of hiring veterans, featuring actor Chris O’Donnell of NCIS: Los Angeles and Batman fame. In a video released this week, O’Donnell implores those who “sit in corner offices” to think about the 800,000 unemployed veterans first when making hiring decisions.

The non-partisan organization also took out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to reach its target audience.

An estimated 30 percent of young veterans ages 18 to 34 are unemployed, a much higher per capita rate than the general population.