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  • 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 ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

    Featured Community Partner | Preserve Giles County

    This month, we are highlighting the Preserve Giles County as our Featured Partner. This article is a repost from September 2022. Preserve Giles County is currently involved with op ...

  • Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    On May 12, our Halifax/South Boston Chapter held a Day Without Child Care event that recognized the importance of child care and early childhood education for parents, providers, a ...

Slings and arrows of immigration

Slings and arrows of immigration

By Carlos Campo The Virginian-Pilot © July 24, 2013 "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." It has been many years since I first read that line from "Hamlet" as an undergra ...

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Virginia Organizing Holds Immigration Rally in Richmond

Virginia Organizing Holds Immigration Rally in Richmond

Richmond, Va.—On Saturday, July 27 at 1 p.m., Virginia Organizing and other groups held a rally at Monroe Park to call on House Majority Leader Congressman Eric Cantor to su ...

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New Report: Immigration Reform = Jobs + Income Boost for Virginia

New Report: Immigration Reform = Jobs + Income Boost for Virginia

By Alison Burns, Public News Service - VARICHMOND, Va. - Providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants could increase jobs and incomes in Virginia, according to ...

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Raise Revenue With Reform, Tax Coalition Tells Senators Responding to “Blank Slate” Proposal

Raise Revenue With Reform, Tax Coalition Tells Senators Responding to “Blank Slate” Proposal

Americans for Tax Fairness Urges Closing of Tax Loopholes Used by Corporations and the Wealthy WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seizing on the Senate Finance Committee ...

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New Process for Restoration of Civil Rights!

New Process for Restoration of Civil Rights!

You might have heard that as of yesterday, Virginia started a more automated process of restoring civil rights to former non-violent felons. We want to make sure you have all the ...

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Details still murky about health insurance exchanges under ‘Obamacare’

Details still murky about health insurance exchanges under ‘Obamacare’

By Laurence Hammack and David Resshttp://www.roanoke.com/news/obamacare/2065160-12/details-still-murky-about-health-insurance-exchanges-under.htmlOver the course of five years, Ch ...

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New from ITEP:  Undocumented Immigrants Pay $10.6 Billion Annually In State and Local Taxes; Immigration Reform Would Increase State Revenues By $2 Billion

New from ITEP: Undocumented Immigrants Pay $10.6 Billion Annually In State and Local Taxes; Immigration Reform Would Increase State Revenues By $2 Billion

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Releases New 50-State Study TodayWith fiscal costs and benefits figuring large in the immigration reform debate, a new analysis shows ...

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One Tuesday, Two Healthcare Systems

One Tuesday, Two Healthcare Systems

By Dr. Chris Lillis http://www.drsforamerica.org/blog/one-tuesday-two-healthcare-systemsLast week was a typical busy week for me.  As a primary care doctor I typica ...

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The Vanishing Corporate Taxpayer

The Vanishing Corporate Taxpayer

By Massie Whorley, The Commonwealth Institutehttp://thehalfsheet.org/post/55002106091/the-vanishing-corporate-tax-payerWhile all corporations in Virginia benefit from education, p ...

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Immigration reform in the real world

Immigration reform in the real world

Virginian-Pilot http://hamptonroads.com/2013/07/immigration-reform-real-world The U.S. Senate's bipartisan approval last month of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's broken immigr ...

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