New Poll: Large Majority of Virginia Voters Support Improving the ACA, Closing the Coverage Gap
RICHMOND, Va. -- A new survey of likely voters in five states – Florida, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia – shows solid majorities believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is ...
Read More »Inside The Fast-Cash World Of Virginia Car-Title Lenders
Listen to the full story at WAMU (click here). You may have heard their jingles on the radio or seen their commercials that play endlessly on late-night TV. Perhaps you have driv ...
Read More »Help Celebrate 20 Years!
We have some news about our 2015 Grassroots Gathering – Attorney General Mark Herring has agreed to come to one of our Mass Meeting sessions! Are you registered for this monumenta ...
Read More »Survey: Small Business Group Leaders Say States Favor Big Businesses at the Expense of Small Firms Seeking to Grow
A national survey of 41 leaders of small business organizations representing 24,000 member businesses in 25 states reveals that they overwhelmingly believe that state economic dev ...
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A Flood of Voices
Virginia Organizing, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Sierra Club of Virginia have teamed up to raise awareness about the flooding in the South Hampton Roads area. South ...
Read More »Mary Mannix Says About Half of Virginia’s Rural Hospitals Run in the Red
Originally posted on Politifact Virginia. Hospital officials from across Virginia flocked to Richmond last week to air concerns about tightening revenues at their facilities. Amon ...
Read More »Encourage Senator Warner to Stop Corporate Tax Loopholes!
Corporate lobbyists are working hard to make sure they pay as little tax as possible on profits they stash in offshore tax havens. U.S. Senator Mark Warner has previously proposed ...
Read More »Study: Pay Gap for Women Won’t Close Until 2059
Originally posted in Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. – Women won't get paid as much as men until the year 2059, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Resear ...
Read More »Environmental Justice and Jobs
The creation of more jobs seems to be a major incentive the oil industries offer to convince people to allow such projects as offshore oil drilling, the Atlantic Coast pipeline, f ...
Read More »Senator Stanley, expand Medicaid
Originally published in the Danville Register and Bee. To the editor: By not expanding Medicaid, our General Assembly representatives have turned their backs on women and families ...
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