Take Me Out to the Job Fair!

Irving, TX - This week our office hosted the 2024 North Texas Job Fair at Globe Life Field in Arlington. I wanted to share some of the highlights with you all!

In our constituent services section, we had an entire area dedicated solely to veteran resources. I'm so grateful for the relationships we’ve formed with our service organizations so we can work together to help our heroes.

Wounded Warrior Project signed up 10 new warriors yesterday and I enjoyed swapping challenge coins with Gus from Combined Arms! We had Veterans in Business, VA North Texas Health Care System, Texas Veterans Commission, Texas Veterans Land Board, Texas Veterans Leadership Program, and so many more offering resources to our nation's heroes.

We also gave away over 3,000 backpacks loaded with school supplies for North Texas families! As the new school year approaches, our office wanted to help North Texas families by easing the burden of high inflation and I'm so happy we were able to do so.

Globe Life Field was packed with over 25,000 job seekers showing up to find new or better careers! From 11am - 3pm we were so honored to help serve tens of thousands of North Texans. We truly appreciated the feedback from businesses who received hundreds of new candidates to employees who found the opportunity they were looking for!

The Main and Upper Concourses of Globe Life Field were filled with businesses, from Mom & Pop retailers to Fortune 500 companies. We had to make room for even more who showed up on the spot wanting to hire. Incredibly, there were lines during the entire job fair for so many businesses and organizations.

Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to make the 2024 North Texas Job Fair our most successful yet!

As I’ve said before, I’ll always be a local elected official at heart. Getting out of Washington to put on community events like our North Texas Job Fair is just one example of how we are working to improve the lives of North Texans regardless of what is going on in Washington, D.C.

This week’s Texas-24 Hometown Hero is Deputy Todd Tipton from the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Tipton survived 3 gunshot wounds after attempting to serve warrants to a man suspected of child sex crimes. He's an amazing man and hero!

Applications for our office’s Congressional Veteran Commendations are now open! Through this program we honor the distinguished veterans of Texas-24 and preserve their stories for future generations of Americans. Nominate a hero today.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your voice in Washington. To stay up to date on what's happening each week, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Please do not hesitate to contact our office if we can ever be of service to you. 

Sincerely,

Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (TX-24)