Federal Budget Rules Could Bring Automatic Social Security, Medicare Cuts
Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. — New budget rules proposed for Congress could bring deep, automatic cuts to benefit programs for seniors that had been exempt from ...
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Stop Child Hunger
As a parent, I know how important it is for kids to have healthy food. Really, it is a no-brainer that kids shouldn’t have to go hungry, right? Not according to the U.S. House of ...
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State of the States Report 2015
Published by the Center for American Progress. See also: Interactive: Restoring Shared Prosperity (TalkPoverty.org) State-by-state fact sheets In 2014, more than one in seven Ame ...
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Your Federal Student Loans Just Got Easier to REPAYE
This article was published on Homeroom, the official blog of the Department of Education Beginning today, Federal Direct Loan borrowers can take advantage of a new repayment plan: ...
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End tax breaks for big corporations
Our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness recently sent out an email to let us know that Congress is negotiating a huge package of mostly corporate tax breaks that have expired—ba ...
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Healthy Compensation: Demanding Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Originally posted in the Petersburg Progress-Index. It wasn’t until I fractured my hip that I realized I’d been physically compensating for my muscular dystrophy by putting more p ...
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Virginia Organizing Responds to Governor’s Proposed Budget
Richmond, Va.—Virginia Organizing Chairperson Ladelle McWhorter issued the following statement in response to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s 2016-2018 proposed budget: “Virgi ...
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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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Encourage Senator Warner to Stop Corporate Tax Loopholes!
Corporate lobbyists are working hard to make sure they pay as little tax as possible on profits they stash in offshore tax havens. U.S. Senator Mark Warner has previously proposed ...
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VA Women Would Benefit from $12 Minimum Wage
Listen to the audio version of this story at Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. - Momentum is building to raise the federal minimum wage, and a new analysis shows that working wo ...
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