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March 19, 2024

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Amazon CEO Bezos vows to hire vets, their spouses

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos vowed to hire 25,000 veterans and spouses of active-duty military personnel over the next five years, joining a 5-year-old White House program to support military families and furthering the tech giant’s steps into the civic spotlight.

Veterans returning from America’s recent military forays have been made a cause c?l?bre by other corporate leaders, including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who co-wrote a book about them with former Washington Post editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

Amazon has also made an effort at hiring veterans in the past — about 10,000 since 2011.

But Bezos’ very public announcement, made at the White House on Thursday, seems to indicate a changing step for a company that’s been criticized in the past for standoffishness when it comes to public involvement.

It underscores how, as Amazon’s business soars, its public profile rises as well — as does the standard it’s held to.

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