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10 things the new Consumer Protection Bureau can do to protect consumers

10 things the new Consumer Protection Bureau can do to protect consumers

Thanks to Wall Street reform legislation, The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) begins work on July 21, 201. The Bureau has plenty to do and plenty of power to do it, even with ...

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Physicians and Community Leaders Call on Cantor: “Stop Grandstanding With Grandma’s Health Care”

Physicians and Community Leaders Call on Cantor: “Stop Grandstanding With Grandma’s Health Care”

Virginia Organizing and Doctors for America Visit Rep. Cantor’s Glen Allen Office and Ask HimTo Stop Playing Politics With Medicare and MedicaidDoctors for America Deliver Petition Asking Rep. C ...

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Tuesday July 26 in Richmond, Learn About the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan

Tuesday July 26 in Richmond, Learn About the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan

Health Insurance for Virginia Residents with Pre-Existing ConditionsIs Now More Affordable! Join Us To Learn About the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan  The Pre-Existing Condition Insur ...

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Virginia Organizing Opposes Rep. Goodlatte’s Vote to Slash Safety Net

Virginia Organizing Opposes Rep. Goodlatte’s Vote to Slash Safety Net

Valley Residents Oppose Rep. Goodlatte’s Votes to Slash Safety NetVirginia Organizing Visits Rep. Goodlatte’s Harrisonburg Office;Calls on Him To Protect—Not Cut—Medicaid Meanw ...

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Virginia Main Street Alliance Update July 19, 2011

Virginia Main Street Alliance Update July 19, 2011

The Virginia Health Reform Initiative (VHRI) met on July 15.  The task force made a number of important decisions about how health care reform will work in Virginia.  They mostly talked abou ...

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Cantor Intent on Downgrading Virginia

Cantor Intent on Downgrading Virginia

Virginia is one of five states that could lose its AAA bond rating thanks to the to the politcal theatrics of Rep. Eric Cantor and his refusal to raise the debt ceiling without draconian cuts. On July ...

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Crime & Punishment: VA Community’s Fight with Oxycontin

Crime & Punishment: VA Community’s Fight with Oxycontin

July 5, 2011 PENNINGTON GAP, Va. - A small, rural area of southwestern Virginia was a launching pad in the 1990s for a then-newly-approved pain-relief drug, Oxycontin. According to locals, drug addict ...

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Virginians meet with Senator Warner’s staff on Social Security

Virginians meet with Senator Warner’s staff on Social Security

On July 12, Virginians from all over the state visited DC to tell Senator Webb and Senator Warner to protect social security. The group joined hundreds of community members from around the country for ...

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VA Group Travels State to Debunk Social Security “Myths”

VA Group Travels State to Debunk Social Security “Myths”

July 15, 2011RICHMOND, Va. - As the debt-ceiling debate continues in Washington, some of Virginia's college students and interns are traveling around the state to make sure cutting Social Security ...

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