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Interested in Environmental Issues?

Interested in Environmental Issues?

Virginia Organizing is excited to share some wonderful resources for those interested in environmental health and climate change issues. Environmental Health Sciences publishes tw ...

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State of the States Report 2015

State of the States Report 2015

Published by the Center for American Progress.  See also: Interactive: Restoring Shared Prosperity (TalkPoverty.org) State-by-state fact sheets In 2014, more than one in seven Ame ...

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Getting the Most Energy Efficiency Bang for Your Buck in Virginia

Getting the Most Energy Efficiency Bang for Your Buck in Virginia

Virginia residents experience incredibly diverse weather. With temperatures averaging at 28 degrees during the coldest months and reaching 90 degrees or more during the summer, ho ...

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Support Consumers, NOT Predatory Lenders

Support Consumers, NOT Predatory Lenders

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators will soon introduce legislation that will seriously put at risk current, vital regulations that protect everything from workers health, climate ...

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Study: Medicaid Expansion Means Healthier Workforce

Study: Medicaid Expansion Means Healthier Workforce

Originally published by Public News Service. A comparison between states shows those that have expanded Medicaid are likely to have a healthier workforce. The Virginia General Ass ...

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Speak Out for Virginia

Speak Out for Virginia

Yesterday, I participated in a conference call about Medicaid expansion where I learned that Kentucky has reduced the number of working uninsured people in their state by 36 perce ...

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Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg Chapter to Hold Community Meeting on School Discipline Issues

Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg Chapter to Hold Community Meeting on School Discipline Issues

What: “School to Prison Pipeline” Community Workshop When: Tuesday, February 2 at 7 p.m. Where: Lee Hall 412, University of Mary Washington (1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, V ...

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Support Economic Development and Clean Energy in Virginia

Support Economic Development and Clean Energy in Virginia

The Virginia Coastal Protection Act is a piece of state legislation that will not only bring cleaner energy to Virginia, but has the potential to bring much-needed income and jobs ...

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Care for Our Earth: Food Safety

Care for Our Earth: Food Safety

Few of us have given any consideration to where our food comes from or the processes our food endures to reach our tables.  We are for the most part ignorant and disconnected rega ...

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Report: Shortage of Living Wage Jobs in Virginia Leaves Workers Struggling

Report: Shortage of Living Wage Jobs in Virginia Leaves Workers Struggling

Portsmouth, Va.—New research by Virginia Organizing’s national partner Alliance for a Just Society shows that in Virginia, only 44 percent of current job openings pay a living wag ...

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