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Veteran advocate urges New York City mayor to prioritize veterans, warns of VA job cuts and launches campaign to end veteran poverty
Summary
Kevin C. Meggitt, a Bronx-based veteran advocate, said the newly elected New York City mayor lacks a veteran platform, described steps to push city officials and the VA on homelessness and services, and announced an "End Veteran Poverty Now" campaign and local events to press for change.
Kevin C. Meggitt, a veteran advocate and commander in the Bronx chapter of the National Association for Black Veterans, told host Dr. Bob Lee that he pressed the newly elected New York City mayor at a Bronx Democratic event with a blunt question: "Are you anti veteran?" and said the mayor replied, "No. Why would you say that?" Meggitt said the mayor's office promised a follow-up meeting but that veterans remain underrecognized in city policy.
Meggitt described the city’s veteran support apparatus as underfunded and in need of reform. "The Department of Veteran Services, which is ran by Commissioner James Hendon, ... has been underfunded for so long," he said,…
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