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  • #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    We asked and our communities answered! Watch our video of our members sharing how Medicaid has impacted them. https://youtu.be/HoAxfv3ANvs?feature=shared ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    To be without an ID in the United States is to be illegible to the state, which can mean tumbling into a netherworld of nonexistence, locked out of basic services like jobs, housin ...

  • Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Have a sun-sational summer with your Peninsula chapter and join us for our upcoming events in Newport News and Hampton! We're moving the needle on local issues like housing, educat ...

  • Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...

Explanation of New Health Plan Draws a Crowd

Explanation of New Health Plan Draws a Crowd

http://www.freelancestar.com/2013-09-24/articles/18552/explanation-of-new-health-plan-draws-a-crowd/By Kate ThisdellNew health insurance marketplaces will be open for business in ...

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CHN: Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections Extended to Home Care Workers

CHN: Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections Extended to Home Care Workers

http://www.chn.org/human_needs_report/chn-minimum-wage-overtime-protections-extended-home-care-workers/On September 17, the US Department of Labor announced that it will extend mi ...

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Vulnerable Families vs. Big Corporations: Who Wins?

Vulnerable Families vs. Big Corporations: Who Wins?

Congress’ August recess is over and our U.S. Representatives and Senators are finally back to work in Washington, D.C. This summer, they heard from you and many others ...

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What’s on Rep. Cantor’s Mind this Session?

What’s on Rep. Cantor’s Mind this Session?

Please see below for a letter from our Board Chairperson on a recent meeting with Rep. Cantor's office.  Last week, Virginia Organizing and other groups met with Cor ...

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Immigration Reform Requires a Comprehensive Plan

Immigration Reform Requires a Comprehensive Plan

By George Kegleyhttp://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/2199430-12/immigration-reform-requires-a-comprehensive-plan.htmlThose of us who work with refugees and immigrants are dis ...

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Left Out of Labor Day

Left Out of Labor Day

The Commonwealth Institute: http://thehalfsheet.org/post/59687425880/left-out-of-labor-dayHere’s something to wrap your mind around as we head into Labor Day weekend: u ...

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Virginians Return to DC for 50th Anniversary of ‘March on Washington’

Virginians Return to DC for 50th Anniversary of ‘March on Washington’

By Alison BurnsRICHMOND, Va. - In 1963, when David Hoover was just 12 years old, he was one of a handful of black students at what was then a recently desegregated school in Richm ...

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Illinois Democrat makes immigration pitch in Virginia

Illinois Democrat makes immigration pitch in Virginia

By Mary Orndorff Troyan, USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/26/gutierrez-immigration-virginia-goodlatte/2704081/ HARRISONBURG, Va. -- The battle over im ...

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The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship

The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship

The White House released a report detailing the economic benefits of providing a path to earned citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living a ...

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South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Attend Governor’s Talk on Restoration of Rights

South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Attend Governor’s Talk on Restoration of Rights

On Tuesday, August 13, Governor Bob McDonnell visited Tidewater Community College (Portsmouth Campus) to discuss changes to the process of restoration of rights in Virginia. Virgi ...

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