Starbucks known for its expensive, but delicious beverages is focusing its attention on hiring veterans and the spouses of active-duty soldiers.

The http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022197551_starbucksmilitaryxml.html >Seattle Times reported that the coffee company is aiming to hire 10,000 veterans and active-duty spouses in a span of five years.

Starbucks recently announced the news on their website Starbucks Newsroom.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman, president, and chief executive, made a statement, “The more than one million transitioning U.S. veterans and almost one and half million military spouses – with their diverse background and experience – share our mission-driven sensibility and work ethic and can build long-term careers at Starbucks as they return home.”

This news comes at a time, when Veterans need jobs in a market that appears to be out of jobs to offer them.

February of this year, Huffington Post reported that the unemployment rate for veterans were higher than civilians.

Although September showed a drop in the number of unemployed veterans, to Starbucks director Robert M. Gates, “It’s not enough until every veteran has a job.”

The coffee company began a veterans-mentoring program in partnership with the Armed Forces Network six years ago, and they plan to use that program to aid them in their five year plan.

The company has tweeted about its new hiring practices to employ veteran and military families on Twitter.

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