Five-Year Plans: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act and Looking Forward
By Dottie Holtz The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has accomplished what 100 years of health care reform could not—for the first time, we have the lowest number ...
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Poor Vision Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Originally posted by The Commonwealth Institute on March 12, 2015. The Virginian-Pilot published an excellent editorial last week putting the seemingly rosy state budget news into ...
Read More »Agency that got its start in SWVa. celebrates two decades of success
BY ALLIE ROBINSON GIBSON | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. — In 1994, a community organizer came across the border from Kentucky into Southwest Virginia and started talking t ...
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Do you ‘top off’ your gas tank?
Climate change necessitates that each of us work at reducing our carbon footprint (the amount of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere by our actions and lifestyle). One way ...
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Va. school boards’ anti-discrimination stands can mention sexual orientation
Originally posted on the Washington Post on March 4, 2015. RICHMOND — Local school boards have the authority to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their anti-discri ...
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The Two Americas of Health Care
On February 25, 2015, The New York Times posted a video on "How King v. Burwell, the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, could create two American health ca ...
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High Stakes
Originally posted by The Half Sheet on March 4, 2015. Quality, affordable health coverage for hundreds of thousands of Virginians is under attack yet again. Today, the Supreme Cou ...
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General Assembly notebook: Virginia lawmakers make final push toward a wrap
Originally posted by the Roanoke Times on February 25, 2015. RICHMOND — Virginia legislators on Thursday plowed through a blizzard of bills in an effort to adjourn on time Saturda ...
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Protect Our Health Care
On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in King v. Burwell, which has the potential to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and cause millions of Americans to lo ...
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New Poverty Measure Uncovers Hidden Success Story in VA
Originally posted on the Public News Service on February 25, 2015. RICHMOND, Va. - The measuring tool for poverty has been recalibrated, and the new calculation tells a success st ...
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