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Were tied to the student's performance. new concerns for recent college graduates looking to for their first big break in the job market. it forces many into low skill, low paying jobs and what was meant as a temporary move for a lot of them is turning into a prolonged under employment. and that is for those lucky enough to find jobs. the national unemployment rate is now 7.7%, but looking at economic policy, institute stats from 2012, more than 19% of recent college grads were then working, but under employed and that is compared to 9.4 who were in that time period. i know you have a child ...

>> have you lived up to that responsibility? >> the commitment hasn't changed, candy. i took this job to make things better for veterans. i don't know them individually, but i know them as a group. i've served with many of them. and the commitment hasn't changed. and we're going to fix this. >> and, again, for you and for the president it's not a question of commitment. it's a question of results. and the question is have there been enough results over a five-year period to satisfy you? >> no veteran should have to wait for claims as they are today. we have a fix for this. we're open for busin...

>> i want to ask you one question about jobs. and that is as you know the veterans jobless rate is higher than the average population. have you done enough to help those veterans? and what do you think the problem is? >> well, we all look for the opportunity to increase veteran employment. i think the latest employment numbers do reflect some impact. >> about 9.4 now. >> that's correct. the president has been forward and leading on this. i think you're familiar with the joining forces initiative out of the white house led by the first lady and dr. jill biden that promised by the end of 2013 10...

>> no veteran should have to wait for claims as they are today. we have a fix for this. we're open for business. and we will end the backlog in 2015. >> general shinseki, we appreciate you coming by. we hope you will come by more often as such an important issue for the whole country not just the veterans seeking their benefits. thank you. >> thank you, candy. a point of clarification on the veteran urn employment rate, it is 9.4% amongest post-september 11th veterans. the overall veteran unemployment rate is 6.9%, that is lower than the national rate. next two re veteran groups will join ...

Filers is 600 days. so that's not a few cases either. >> well, we can go and take those numbers and drill down into them, but again our commitment is we're going to end the backlog in 2015. this has been decades in the making, ten years of war. we're in paper. we need to get out of paper. we still get paper from d.o.d. and other agencies. we have commitments that in 2014 we will be electronically processing our data and sharing it. >> i want to ask you one question about jobs. and that is as you know the veterans jobless rate is higher than the average population. have you done enough to help ...