During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama promised to "create a veterans job corps, so we can put our returning heroes back to work as cops and firefighters in communities that need them."

When we looked at this pledge in mid-2013, we rated it Stalled, noting that the proposed $1 billion effort had floundered in Congress.

However, with the March 4, 2014, release of Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposal, the idea is back.

The fiscal 2014 budget proposal includes $1 billion in "mandatory funding to create the Veterans Job Corps program," which would "put thousands of veterans back to work over the next five years protecting and rebuilding America."

The program would start with $50 million in funding for 2015, then roughly $238 million for each of the following four fiscal years.

Meanwhile, a related proposal would put veterans (and young people) to work under the National Parks Centennial Initiative. This would be a "Works Progress Administration (WPA)-like" effort to upgrade the National Park System for its 100th anniversary in 2016, along with improvements to national forests, refuges, and other public lands.

Because budgets are wish lists that are subject to revision -- and often outright rejection -- by Congress, this is far from a Promise Kept. In fact, recent history suggests that Congress has not inclined to support this particular proposal. Still, the fact that Obama has revived the proposal despite past difficulty in getting it enacted leads us to move the needle to In the Works.