Mitchell: America shouldn’t be a country where livelihoods are bargained for.
With the average cost of a college education today being somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000 per year, imagine putting four children through college by yourself. Even for ...
Read More »Sandra Cook on the Debt Ceiling: We Will Not Quietly Submit
Frustrated. Furious. Fed up. I don’t know about you, but I am disgusted about what is going on in Washington with the debt ceiling. Like most Americans, I have followed ...
Read More »
Williams: Cuts Would Hurt Women Disproportionately
Throughout my life, I have always had the desire to work with women in the promotion of economic equality. When I learned about the work Virginia Organizing was doing surrounding ...
Read More »
Shepherd Powell: Bad Debt Ceiling Deals Have Southwest Seniors “Cussin” Congress
In talking to senior citizens in southwest Virginia about the importance of protecting social security, I think it is the worried look in the eyes of these older Americans that ge ...
Read More »
Schmale: Children and Cuts to Social Security
I had the amazing opportunity to hang out with 54 grieving children this weekend. On many weekends during the year I volunteer for a bereavement camp. Like a majority of the ...
Read More »
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-Exi ...
Read More »
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 dr ...
Read More »
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 t ...
Read More »
Ehrenthal: Understanding Medicare
With all of the controversy surrounding proposed cuts to Medicare, it would be a good idea to understand just what Medicare is, and is not. Medicare is a medical payment program t ...
Read More »
Ehrenthal: Social Security Follies
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 poi ...
Read More »