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Virginia Organizing Responds to Report Showing Economy Recovering Slowly, Increasing Inequality

Virginia Organizing Responds to Report Showing Economy Recovering Slowly, Increasing Inequality

URBAN INSTITUTE ANALYZES GROWTH SINCE 2007 AND PROJECTED GROWTH UNTIL 2017 RICHMOND, VA-The Urban Institute released a national report today detailing economic recovery and projec ...

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Housing Costs in Virginia Still Out of Reach

Housing Costs in Virginia Still Out of Reach

Posted by HOME: http://homeva.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/housing-cost-in-virginia-still-out-of-reach/ June 14, 2012 According to the 2012 report “Out of Re ...

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Economic Justice Overview

Economic Justice Overview

 Economic justice is a commitment to ensuring that all people are able to afford necessities, not preyed upon by exploitive financial industries and products, and given equal ...

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Ask Senator Warner for a Budget that Protects Basic Services, not Tax Breaks for the Wealthy

Ask Senator Warner for a Budget that Protects Basic Services, not Tax Breaks for the Wealthy

In a close vote, the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Buffett Rule, a groundbreaking piece of legislation that would have required millionaires to pay at least the same tax rate as ...

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Downie: The President’s Plan to Help Virginia’s Homeowners

Downie: The President’s Plan to Help Virginia’s Homeowners

 What a long road for homeowners. So many have suffered and lost their homes. I personally have watched two of my children fight to keep their homes. Both are upside down in ...

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Letter to Bank of America: You’re on Notice, See you In Charlotte.

Letter to Bank of America: You’re on Notice, See you In Charlotte.

Today, Virginia Organizing leaders attempted to the deliver the following letter to the Charlottesville branch manager. The mananger kindly refused so the group went to the neares ...

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Brown: An Afternoon With VP Biden on the SOTU

Brown: An Afternoon With VP Biden on the SOTU

“We can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair shave, and plays by the same sets of rules”—President ObamaAs a member of the State G ...

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Victory on UI and Payroll Tax Cut, Virginia Organizing at White House

Victory on UI and Payroll Tax Cut, Virginia Organizing at White House

Yesterday the obstructionists in the House of Representatives finally announced they'd join a majority of senators from both political parties to renew unemployment benefits a ...

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Breaking up with Bank of America: Michele’s story

Breaking up with Bank of America: Michele’s story

Over the last several months Virginia Organizing has joined the campaign Move Our Money USA in moving $57 million away from the big banks into credit unions and small banks.We hav ...

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No More Mr. Potter: Virginians Moving Money out of Big Banks

No More Mr. Potter: Virginians Moving Money out of Big Banks

The 1946 film "It's a Wonderful life," which starred Jimmy Stewart, has become an American Christmas classic. For hundreds of Virginians, one of the film's lesso ...

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