THE WASHINGTON TIMES — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced Wednesday that he’s donating $30 million to war veterans returning to the United States.
The gift has been earmarked mostly for research into brain trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, he told CBS News.
“I think one thing that is necessary is a comprehensive mechanism for job training,” he said. “But another is the fact that, depending on who you’re talking to, 20, 30, 40 percent of the two million people who have served are coming back with some kind of brain trauma or [PTSD]. So we’re going to fund the opportunity for significant research and for medical practitioners and science to understand the disease and, ultimately, hopefully, come up with some — a level of remedy.”
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