This year's General Assembly session has been filled with 45 days of Virginia Organizing leaders filing through the halls in small groups, hoping for the chance to see their legislators and speak ...
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Yesterday the House voted in favor of SB 1367 which would allow out of state drivers to take out a title loan in Virginia. The bill expands predatory lending and rolls back much of the progress made l ...
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A SECOND BRIEF UPDATE FROM THE VIRGINIA MAIN STREET ALLIANCE 1) In an effort to begin a discussion about how the health insurance exchanges can help small businesses best, several Virginia ...
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We are wondering how the tourism bureau will market Virginia's newest potential distinction: the predatory lending capital of the eastern U.S?The Virginia Poverty Law Center has made a couple chan ...
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We are celebrating a big victory today at the General Assembly! State legislators rejected almost all of the anti-immigrant laws proposed in the State Senate Courts of Justice immigration subcommittee ...
Read More »Today, the House Commerce and Labor Committee voted to report SB 1367---the Bill to allow Virginia to export usury. The bill would allow car title companies to give loans to nonresidents with ve ...
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QUICK UPDATE FROM THE VIRGINIA MAIN STREET ALLIANCE 1) There is a new organizer for the Virginia Main Street Alliance. Bob Becker started work on January 3 here in the commonwealth. ...
Read More »Richmond- Members of Virginia Organizing, Virginia Poverty Law Center and other groups will make their way through the halls of the Virginia General Assembly this afternoon at 2:00 pm armed with 100 p ...
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This post was originally published on Take Me Home Virginia blog and is by Connellee Armentrout. Connellee is originally from Roanoke and is a second year law student at the University of Richmo ...
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Predatory lending stinks! For years we have fought against predatory lending during the General Assembly and this year is no exception. On Valentine's day, we visited all the offfices of the ...
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