VA Child Poverty Strategy: Kids Succeed When Families Succeed
Originally posted by The Public News Service on November 12, 2014. by Dan Heyman RICHMOND, Va. - A new strategy - helping kids by helping their families - is offering promise for ...
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Fighting for Veterans
Published by The Commonwealth Institute on November 10, 2014 By Massey Whorley Virginia is home to a large share of our nation’s active-duty military personnel and veterans. And l ...
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Efforts to Connect More Virginia Children to Health Coverage Stalling
Originally posted on The Public News Service on November 6, 2014. by Dan Heyman RICHMOND, Va. - A new report demonstrates efforts to connect more children to health care coverage ...
Read More »The Medicaid Debate: “Tell Them These are Real People”
Posted by the Public News Service on September 17, 2014by Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - As Virginia lawmakers gather to consider Medicaid expansion, some of those who would benef ...
Read More »Better Together
Originally posted on The Half Sheet. Among the many hurdles that low-income Virginians face, two stand out: wages are stagnant, and they pay a higher share of their income on ...
Read More »Let’s Get Virginia to Work!
Labor Day is a time to celebrate the contributions workers make to our economy and society, and to be thankful for the sacrifices made by previous generations who won the more hum ...
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Social Security Means Nearly $20 Billion a Year for Virginians
Originally posted by the Public News Service on August 29, 2014by Dan Heyman, Public News Service - VARICHMOND, Va. - At the ripe old age of 79, Social Security is helping Virgini ...
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Virginia Organizing Bettering Lives
Published in the Daily Progress on August 21, 2014As one of Virginia Organizing’s “supported groups,” which were referenced in an Aug. 15 letter to the editor (“Big money flowing ...
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Lack of Medicaid expansion poses a bigger danger to Americans than terrorism
Published in The Washington Post Letters to the Editor, July 25, 2014 Regarding Petula Dvorak’s July 19 Metro column, “Lines of desperation: Once-a-year chance to get medical care ...
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Washington County Chapter Opposes Fracking
Published by WJHL News Channel 11 on May 16, 2014 WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA (WJHL) - By Allie HInds, Reporter Some Southwest Virginia landowners say discussions detailing the possibil ...
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