

10:00 am EDT - 11:30 am EDT
Past Event
10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT
1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC
20036
The nation continues to ask a great deal of its men and women in uniform—and their families. And as the saying goes, the military recruits the servicemember, but it retains the family. Only if military families are financially secure and otherwise stable can the all-volunteer armed forces remain strong. Although military compensation compares favorably with most jobs for comparable cohorts in the private sector, challenges still abound. Not least among them is the fact that military spouses, because of frequent changes of postings and the additional demands of military life and deployments, often struggle to find and keep good jobs. Yet today’s economy can make it very difficult for single-income families to stay afloat.
On October 21, The Brookings Institution convened a panel of experts to discuss these challenges for military families and what is being done to address them.
Panelist
Jon Valant
May 28, 2025
Jacob Bastian
May 23, 2025
Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Olivia Howard
May 22, 2025