Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction
This is an excerpt from Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing. Click here to order your copy today! In the mid-1990s, Denise Smith was living in Southwe ...
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We need a clean spending bill
Virginia Organizing has learned that Wall Street is at it again, trying to tack some of their most controversial giveaways onto “must-pass” funding bills. To stop them, we need to ...
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Student Loan Debt, A Growing Problem for Virginia
Originally posted in Public News Service. Student loan debt in the state is high and rising and it's a real problem for some. An annual survey by the Institute for College Access ...
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Public Programs Lift Millions of Women and Children Out of Poverty
Originally posted on the National Women's Law Center blog. Some members of Congress are putting public programs that are vital to women and families on the chopping block—despite ...
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Report: Single Virginians Need $18.70 per Hour for Living Wage
Originally posted in the Augusta Free Press. Virginia Organizing released the Alliance for a Just Society’s report, Pay Up!, which highlights the devastating effects of low pay an ...
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“Ban the Box” Resolution Passes Unanimously in Prince William County
Originally posted on NewWoodbridge.org. This Tuesday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously passed the “Ban the Box” resolution, introduced last week by Woodb ...
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Inside The Fast-Cash World Of Virginia Car-Title Lenders
Listen to the full story at WAMU (click here). You may have heard their jingles on the radio or seen their commercials that play endlessly on late-night TV. Perhaps you have driv ...
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Survey: Small Business Group Leaders Say States Favor Big Businesses at the Expense of Small Firms Seeking to Grow
A national survey of 41 leaders of small business organizations representing 24,000 member businesses in 25 states reveals that they overwhelmingly believe that state economic dev ...
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Study: Pay Gap for Women Won’t Close Until 2059
Originally posted in Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. – Women won't get paid as much as men until the year 2059, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Resear ...
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States not expanding Medicaid falling further behind expansion states
Originally published on the Off the Charts blog at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States that have adopted health reform’s Medicaid expansion had a substantially lowe ...
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