STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NPR's business news starts with a Wal-Mart plan to hire veterans.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, we've heard elsewhere in the program about corporate recruiters seeking out veterans. Today, Wal-Mart announces it will hire every veteran who wants a job. It's part of a new program beginning on Memorial Day. The only requirements here are that the veteran left the military in the previous year and that the veteran was not dishonorably discharged.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This Wal-Mart plan is expected to lead to jobs for more than 100,000 people over the next five years.
Wal-Mart is expected to announce that it will hire every veteran who wants a job as part of a new program beginning on Memorial Day. The only requirements: that he or she left the military in the previous year and wasn't dishonorably discharged.