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Verify the cumulative count of nearly 290,000 veterans hired since the program began and that 2025 medallion honorees hired more than 74,000 veterans in the past two years.
The claim matches verbatim the U.S. Department of Labor press release dated Jan. 30, 2026, which states employers "have hired nearly 290,000 veterans since the program’s inception, including more than 74,000 veterans hired by 2025’s medallion honorees in the past two years." However, the department’s own earlier release (Oct. 31, 2024) reported a substantially different total—"nearly 370,000 veterans since the program’s inception"—indicating an internal inconsistency in DOL reporting. Because the statement reflects the 2026 DOL release but conflicts with the agency’s prior figures and the DOL does not provide a public methodology or data reconciliation here, the claim is technically supported by the cited press release but is misleading without clarification of the discrepant accounting, time frames, or metrics used.