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Study Confirms Broad Benefits from Medicaid Expansion

Study Confirms Broad Benefits from Medicaid Expansion

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. – States that expand Medicaid are seeing benefits across their health-care systems and beyond, according to new research. Study co-author Jack Hoadley, a ...

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#StopTheDebtTrap

#StopTheDebtTrap

On June 2, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed new rules aimed at reducing the harmful effects of predatory lending debt traps like payday and car title loans. Virginia Organizing ...

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Claim Solar Rights

Claim Solar Rights

Since we put solar panels on our Charlottesville office, we’ve experienced an 80 percent savings in our electric bills and we want all Virginians to be able to access solar power. Virginia Organizing ...

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Emerging Chapters Organize for Change

Emerging Chapters Organize for Change

Virginia Organizing has several emerging Chapters across the state. If you live in Roanoke, the New River Valley, Lynchburg, Eastern Shore, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, or Suffolk and would like to be invo ...

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Editorial: Kicking out students perpetuates problem

Editorial: Kicking out students perpetuates problem

Published by The Free Lance-Star When a child acts out in school, it’s a problem for everyone involved—fellow students, teachers, administrators and the child’s parents. But it may be the child and th ...

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Virginia Organizing Calls on Electric Co-Ops to Diversify Board Leadership

Virginia Organizing Calls on Electric Co-Ops to Diversify Board Leadership

Lee County, Va.—A recently released report from the Rural Power Project shows undemocratic election procedures resulting in disproportionate board representation in electrical cooperatives in southern ...

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Grassroots Groups Praise President Obama for Social Security Expansion Shift

Grassroots Groups Praise President Obama for Social Security Expansion Shift

President Obama’s declaration that Social Security should be expanded, and not cut, has been applauded with great enthusiasm by groups nationwide which work to protect Social Security for everyone. Am ...

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Praise for Federal Payday-Lending Regulations in Virginia

Praise for Federal Payday-Lending Regulations in Virginia

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. --- New national limits proposed for payday and car-title lending are winning praise from lower-income Virginians and their advocates. The Consumer Finan ...

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Virginia Organizing and Virginia Poverty Law Center Release Virginia Lending Report and Discuss New CFPB Rules for Predatory Lending

Virginia Organizing and Virginia Poverty Law Center Release Virginia Lending Report and Discuss New CFPB Rules for Predatory Lending

Richmond, Va.—Virginia Organizing and Virginia Poverty Law Center, organizations that have been working to stop predatory lending practices in Virginia for many years, released a Virginia predatory le ...

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Virginia Organizing and Virginia Poverty Law Center to Hold Tele-Media Conference to Discuss New CFPB Rule for Predatory Lending

Virginia Organizing and Virginia Poverty Law Center to Hold Tele-Media Conference to Discuss New CFPB Rule for Predatory Lending

What: Tele-media conference to discuss just released Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules for small dollar, short-term lenders When: Thursday, June 2 at 2 p.m. Where: Call in to 605-475-4700 and ...

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