It's no different here. The VA doesn't provide employment services. That's the one major difference. The VA does provide some housing services, but a lot of that's grant-based to NGOs. The VA likes to indirectly fund a lot of community-based organizations to deliver the services. Employment services is a huge gap, and they're obviously our number one most requested need, and the VA doesn't provide those. I think we can deliver those services a lot more cost-effectively because we are a lot more agile, as small non-profit organizations, and we can make decisions a lot faster through having the second-largest bureaucracy in the world. That's an advantage, I think. That's coming from someone who runs an NGO, of course, but I have also worked for both the federal government and the municipal government and that's just my observation and my opinion. For example, it costs about $1,500 to place a veteran, on average, in most of these employment-serving non-profit organizations. I don't know what it would cost the government agencies, but I imagine it's much higher.
On October 3rd, 2017. See this statement in context.