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  • Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Good News for Virginians

    Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Good News for Virginians

    Richmond, Va.— The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the funding method Congress chose for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), allowing a vital ag ...

  • Power Analysis 2024

    Power Analysis 2024

    “We are the little engine that became a locomotive,” said Board member Jay Johnson. We were delighted to convene for our annual Power Analysis again this year in Massanetta Springs ...

  • Take Action on Utility Shutoffs!

    Take Action on Utility Shutoffs!

    Thanks in part to the action you took, legislators passed HB 906 and SB 480 during this General Assembly session, stopping utilities from shutting off customers’ power, gas, and wa ...

  • Take action on the Draft Priority Climate Action Plan

    Take action on the Draft Priority Climate Action Plan

    Do you want to reduce greenhouse gases and improve housing throughout Virginia? Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is requesting feedback on its Draft Priority Cl ...

Thank you, Governor McAuliffe

Thank you, Governor McAuliffe

Your calls made a difference! Keep up the good work, Virginia Organizing leaders and supporters! ...

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Fight for Workers’ Rights

Fight for Workers’ Rights

Do you remember how many times we fought so hard to get workers a living wage? Today, we need your help to stop some bad legislation that would prohibit a locality from enacting a ...

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State of the States Report 2015

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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Report: Shortage of Living Wage Jobs in Virginia Leaves Workers Struggling

Report: Shortage of Living Wage Jobs in Virginia Leaves Workers Struggling

Portsmouth, Va.—New research by Virginia Organizing’s national partner Alliance for a Just Society shows that in Virginia, only 44 percent of current job openings pay a living wag ...

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Simple Things Can Help Virginia Families Build Cushion

Simple Things Can Help Virginia Families Build Cushion

Originally published by Public News Service. Working families in Virginia are having a hard time building up even a small financial cushion. But the authors of a new policy brief ...

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Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part

Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part

Originally published in The Virginian-Pilot. Duke Energy may have set a new record for bad corporate behavior — it polluted a river while dodging its taxes. Duke was fined more th ...

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Your Federal Student Loans Just Got Easier to REPAYE

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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New Institute for Policy Studies Report Examines Wealth Concentration

New Institute for Policy Studies Report Examines Wealth Concentration

From the Institute for Policy Studies America’s 20 wealthiest people, a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet, now own more wealth than the bot ...

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Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction

Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction

This is an excerpt from Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing. Click here to order your copy today! In the mid-1990s, Denise Smith was living in Southwe ...

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We need a clean spending bill

We need a clean spending bill

Virginia Organizing has learned that Wall Street is at it again, trying to tack some of their most controversial giveaways onto “must-pass” funding bills. To stop them, we need to ...

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