There is a serious movement in Congress to raise the age of eligibility for receiving Social Security. Social Securiy benefits are solvent for thirty years and then after that point can be paid out at ...
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Governor McDonnell will be spending a cozy weekend in Vail, Co with his favorite billionaire right wing oil barons, the Koch brothers. What does this have to do with creating jobs in Virginia, you ask ...
Read More »Yesterday, instead of representing the people of Virginia, Eric Cantor stood up for his favorite constituents: millionaires. Representative Cantor refused to show up to budget negotiations yesterday b ...
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The following was originally posted on Progress Notes and was written by Dr. Chris Lillis, Fredericksburg Physician and Virginia Organizing Health Care Committee Member.By Dr. Chris LillisAs you read ...
Read More »Our elected leaders in Washington are continuing the discussion of intense budget cuts ahead of the August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Virginia members of Congress are key players in the pro ...
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Patrice Boone is a volunteer intern making a difference in South Hampton Roads. Patrice recently starting interning with Virginia Organizing and has already rolled up her sleeves and is working on pho ...
Read More »The next meeting of the Virginia Health Reform Initiative (the group planning how Virginia will do health care reform) will be on Friday, July 15 in Richmond at the Virginia Department of Health Profe ...
Read More »From Moveon.org...This infographic/ Facebook status says it all!"Most of the things that spread fast on Facebook are pretty silly—videos of cats and the like. But recently, we noticed a new ...
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The following post if from our friends at Tax Credits for Working Families.Study Finds State EITCs Improve Mothers’ Health and BehaviorLast week, we looked at two studies that demonstrated how f ...
Read More »The Wall Street Journalreported June 17 that AARP has changed its position to now support Social Security benefit cuts. AARP denies it has changed positions, but says its basic policy for two de ...
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