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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 ...

Study: Va. would pay more if Medicaid not expanded

Study: Va. would pay more if Medicaid not expanded

January 5, 2013By Michael Martzhttp://www.timesdispatch.com/news/study-va-would-pay-more-if-medicaid-not-expanded/article_d7d716b0-8888-589e-9e09-66a9a40655df.htmlA new economic s ...

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Reflections on Wal-Mart

Reflections on Wal-Mart

By Marquita HillPublished December 2, 2012 by the Roanoke Times at http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/letters/wb/318495For two quarters, they'd get a raiseOn “Black ...

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Andrea Jackson: Operation Social Security

Andrea Jackson: Operation Social Security

December 27, 2012By LaToya BrackettWatch Andrea tell her story by clicking here.Andrea Jackson joined the United States Army when she was 21 years old. She was deployed for Operat ...

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A Report from Virginia’s Internal Medicine Physician Specialists: How Will the Medicaid Expansion Benefit Virginia?

A Report from Virginia’s Internal Medicine Physician Specialists: How Will the Medicaid Expansion Benefit Virginia?

The following is a report from the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians on why Medicaid expansion is vital to Virginia residents. The full report with references ...

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Don’t Cut Social Security to Pay for Pentagon Waste!

Don’t Cut Social Security to Pay for Pentagon Waste!

December 20, 2012Social Security benefit cuts are part of the emerging fiscal showdown deal. But the deal includes only $100 billion in cuts to the bloated Pentagon budget!We ...

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We Can’t Afford to NOT Expand Medicaid!

We Can’t Afford to NOT Expand Medicaid!

This week, one of the Nuns on the Bus, Sister Mary Ellen Lacy, came to Fredericksburg and Richmond to discuss the importance of Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is timely ...

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It’s time for Big Pharma to pay more

It’s time for Big Pharma to pay more

December 14, 2012The Roanoke Times: http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/317917By Sandra A. CookCook is the chairperson of Virginia Organizing, a non-partisan statewide ...

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The Dirty Coal Industry

The Dirty Coal Industry

December 14, 2012Did you know the coal industry and coal-related activities cost Virginia $22 million more than was paid by those businesses in taxes, fees and other revenue in fi ...

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“Fix the Debt” CEO’s are Destroying Jobs!

“Fix the Debt” CEO’s are Destroying Jobs!

Five Job-Destroying CEOs Trying to “Fix” the Debt by Slashing Corporate Taxes and Cutting Social Security BenefitsLet's name them and shame them.By Sarah Anderson ...

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Payday loan business profitable

Payday loan business profitable

December 10, 2012By Becky Thomashttp://www.dailyprogress.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article_ff5f2f9c-4330-11e2-a80d-001a4bcf6878.htmlI’ve spent some time trying to ve ...

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