Virginia stands to lose 207,571 jobs if federal budget cuts happen
This week is Tax Fairness Call-in Week! Use the toll free number 888-744-9958 to call your elected officials in Washington to demand they end the Bush tax cuts for the wealt ...
Read More »National Tax Fairness Call-in Week
Join us and thousands of other concerned Americans for our National Call Congress Week to make sure that the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% end.When you call Congress ...
Read More »Budget and Tax Reform Overview
We strive to work towards a long-term solution that restores balance to the state’s budget and tax structure.We do not support further budget cuts to vital services li ...
Read More »Martinsville Chapter Denounces Hurt’s Support of Ryan Budget
Martinsville, Va.— On Tuesday, April 17, a dozen members of the Martinsville chapter of Virginia Organizing rallied in front of the Workforce Center on Commonwealth Blvd. to ...
Read More »Last Way on Last Day: Bad Choices, Bad Outcomes
Another General Assembly session has gone by, and once again our elected leaders have missed the opportunity to make Better Choices for Virginia. While no final budget has been ag ...
Read More »10 Ways in 10 Days: Our Struggling Cities
Lawmakers in Richmond are dodging the hard choices and forcing localities to pick up the slack. Many of the cuts and changes to state programs proposed in current budgets am ...
Read More »10 Ways in 10 Days: Abandoning the Most Vulnerable
This legislative session Virginia lawmakers have supported measures that would give tax breaks to people who buy luxury yachts as well as gold, silver, and platinum bullion. ...
Read More »10 Ways in 10 Days: Loopholes in Virginia’s Budget Foundation
Virginia, along with several other states, entered into a settlement with the banking industry over wrongful foreclosures of the homes of Virginia citizens. Of the $69,657,121 the ...
Read More »10 Ways in 10 Days: Precious Metals vs. Healthy Kids
More than 1,350 of Virginia's most vulnerable children and their families could lose access to health care and social services as a result of cuts to CHIP of Virginia (Compreh ...
Read More »10 Ways in 10 Days: Preserving Loopholes, Cutting Virginia’s Teachers
The Hanover County School Board has had to eliminate more than 88 full time jobs in Hanover County Schools because ongoing state cuts to education funding require localities to pi ...
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