Virginia Organizing Kicks Off ‘Stand with Women’ Campaign Across Commonwealth
Roanoke, Va.—Virginia Organizing kicked off the “Stand with Women” campaign across the Commonwealth with a series of local women’s roundtables in Danville, Waynesboro, Petersburg, ...
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Virginia Organizing, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Sierra Club of Virginia have teamed up to raise awareness about the flooding in the South Hampton Roads area. South ...
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Mary Mannix Says About Half of Virginia’s Rural Hospitals Run in the Red
Originally posted on Politifact Virginia. Hospital officials from across Virginia flocked to Richmond last week to air concerns about tightening revenues at their facilities. Amon ...
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Encourage Senator Warner to Stop Corporate Tax Loopholes!
Corporate lobbyists are working hard to make sure they pay as little tax as possible on profits they stash in offshore tax havens. U.S. Senator Mark Warner has previously proposed ...
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Study: Pay Gap for Women Won’t Close Until 2059
Originally posted in Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. – Women won't get paid as much as men until the year 2059, according to a report by the Institute for Women's Policy Resear ...
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Environmental Justice and Jobs
The creation of more jobs seems to be a major incentive the oil industries offer to convince people to allow such projects as offshore oil drilling, the Atlantic Coast pipeline, f ...
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Senator Stanley, expand Medicaid
Originally published in the Danville Register and Bee. To the editor: By not expanding Medicaid, our General Assembly representatives have turned their backs on women and families ...
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States not expanding Medicaid falling further behind expansion states
Originally published on the Off the Charts blog at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States that have adopted health reform’s Medicaid expansion had a substantially lowe ...
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Virginia Organizing to Hold Restoration of Rights Workshop in Woodbridge
What: Workshop to help returning citizens apply to restore civil rights When: Monday, September 14, 2015 from 7-8:30 p.m. Where: Chinn Park Library (13065 Chinn Park Drive, Woodbr ...
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We Need Medicaid Expansion
Originally published in The Danville Register & Bee. To the editor: Aug. 29 was national Women’s Equality Day. I am writing in support of the Stand With Women campaign and to ...
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