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Letter: Time to rein in predatory lenders

Letter: Time to rein in predatory lenders

Published by the Danville Register and Bee. Time to rein in predatory lenders To the editor: Recently, I attended a community forum about predatory lending organized by Virginia O ...

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Suspension Rates at Danville Public Schools Among Worst in State: One in Five K-12 Students Suspended

Suspension Rates at Danville Public Schools Among Worst in State: One in Five K-12 Students Suspended

Danville, Va.—The Danville Chapter of Virginia Organizing is calling on the Danville Public Schools administration to address the suspensions crisis in city schools. In a recent r ...

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Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

The Lynchburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing has been organizing for alternatives to school suspension for some time and their hard work is helping to make change happen! Last nig ...

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Virginia Organizing and Medicaid Expansion – the History

Virginia Organizing and Medicaid Expansion – the History

The University of Richmond's Public Interest Law Review has published its first issue of 2019, which includes an article written by Virginia Organizing's Director Brian Johns, Ros ...

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Top Ten of 2018!

Top Ten of 2018!

With your help, we've done great work this year. There have been too many local campaigns to include them all in our top ten, but please see some highlights of the year below. You ...

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A new world for all of us!

A new world for all of us!

Please join me in supporting Virginia Organizing. Your year-end donation will help us work to stop the evictions and create affordable housing in the City of Fredericksburg and th ...

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

I joined the Portsmouth Chapter of Virginia Organizing two years ago because a friend of mine told me I could get help for my son there. He was suspended and threatened with expul ...

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Take action against Medicaid work requirements!

Take action against Medicaid work requirements!

The long process of Virginia trying to add work requirements to Medicaid continues. The state has asked the federal government for permission to impose these conditions. Now we ha ...

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Don’t Let the Grinch Steal Christmas: Virginia Organizing to Hold Community Forum on Internet Payday Lending in Danville

Don’t Let the Grinch Steal Christmas: Virginia Organizing to Hold Community Forum on Internet Payday Lending in Danville

What: Community forum to share stories and information about predatory car title, payday, and internet loans When: Monday, December 17 at 5:30-7 p.m. Where: Danville Public Librar ...

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Thousands have lost Medicaid in Arkansas because of Work Requirements

Thousands have lost Medicaid in Arkansas because of Work Requirements

Many journalists have reported that the new work requirements in Arkansas have been a disaster for Medicaid recipients. More than 12,000 people have lost coverage, not because the ...

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