Ehrenthal: De-regulation is not a jobs plan
Last week House Majority Leader Eric Cantor released a jobs plan memo, which includes very little about actual job creation. The memo focuses on deregulation across the board and ...
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Corey: Despite crisis, housing costs increased for over a million Virginians
This is a guest post by Elisabeth Corey. Elisabeth has sixteen years of work experience in Finance and Information Technology with three major corporations. She received her Bache ...
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Ehrenthal: A Not So Happy Labor Day for the Unemployed
Today is Labor Day. Officially, unemployment is about 9.1 percent. The real level of unemployment and under employment is probably over 20 percent. Many of those whether unemploye ...
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VIDEO: Constituents Turned Away From Cantor’s “Public” Meeting Take Their Message Outside
In an rare appearance in his district, Rep. Cantor was met with more than 200 of his constituents who are angry with their congressman about his inattention to the jobs crisis, hi ...
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Hundreds Rally at Can’tor “Townhall” in Richmond
Where are the jobs, Rep. Cantor?Hundreds of Rep. Cantor's constituents tried to find out at Rep. Cantor's "Constituent Advisory Council" meeting tonight in Richm ...
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Strengthening property rights will improve our housing market
This is a guest post by Ali Faruk. Ali is the Director of the Center for Housing Leadership at Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (HOME). He holds a Master of Public Adm ...
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REPORT: Fixing Housing Crisis Would Pump $2 Billion into Virginia’s Economy and Create $29K Jobs in VA
While Washington, D.C. gridlocks over job creation, The New Bottom Line has answers: by writing down all underwater mortgages to market value, the nation’s banks could pump ...
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Tea Party Downgrade
Conservatives in Washington are working around the clock to try to shift the blame for Standard and Poor's first-in-history downgrade of the United States' credit rating.B ...
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Join us for our Grassroots Gathering: August 13!
Please join Virginia Organizing on Saturday, August 13 at our Grassroots Gathering in Richmond as we celebrate and share our efforts to create a more just Virginia. Virginians fro ...
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Surplus Smurplus: Staunton Residents Ask “Where’s the Surplus?”
Parents and teachers will gather Thursday in Staunton to collect school supplies for local schools and to call attention to previous cuts to education funding. Cuts in excess of 1 ...
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