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  • #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    We asked and our communities answered! Watch our video of our members sharing how Medicaid has impacted them. https://youtu.be/HoAxfv3ANvs?feature=shared ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    To be without an ID in the United States is to be illegible to the state, which can mean tumbling into a netherworld of nonexistence, locked out of basic services like jobs, housin ...

  • 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 ...

So Much for Obamacare Not Working

So Much for Obamacare Not Working

Originally Published in The New York TimesBy Paul KrugmanHave you been following the news about Obamacare? The Affordable Care Act has receded from the front page, but information ...

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A new report, Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid

A new report, Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid

The Council of Economic Advisers released a report, Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid, which details the effects of state decis ...

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Washington County supervisors to look at natural gas ordinance

Washington County supervisors to look at natural gas ordinance

Posted: Saturday, June 28, 2014 11:22 pm | Updated: 11:25 pm, Sat Jun 28, 2014. ALLIE ROBINSON GIBSON | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. — An ordinance governing drilling for ...

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Group sends a Medicaid message

Group sends a Medicaid message

 BY PAMELA GOULD / THE FREE LANCE-STARJune 30, 2014Former Fredericksburg Mayor Lawrence Davies carried a poster-board sign as he joined about 80 people Sunday morning in a si ...

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Virginia Organizing holds march in Fredericksburg for Medicaid

Virginia Organizing holds march in Fredericksburg for Medicaid

June 29th, 2014, 12:47 pmFredericksburg.comAbout 80 people showed up in Fredericksburg this morning to march across the Falmouth Bridge to House Speaker Bill Howell’s office ...

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Guest Commentary: Let’s Lead on Paid Leave

Guest Commentary: Let’s Lead on Paid Leave

Published by the Times of Northwest Indiana on June 27, 2014by Thomas PerezForty years ago this weekend, my father died of a heart attack at age 52. I was 12, so as time goes by I ...

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Virginia Organizing Responds to Rep. Goodlatte’s Committee Hearing

Virginia Organizing Responds to Rep. Goodlatte’s Committee Hearing

Roanoke, Va.—On behalf of Virginia Organizing, Janice “Jay” Johnson responded to U.S. Representative and House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte’s committ ...

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Statement of Governor Terence McAuliffe on 2015-2016 Budget Actions

Statement of Governor Terence McAuliffe on 2015-2016 Budget Actions

Posted on Governor McAuliffe's website on June 20, 2014.Good Morning.Over the past six days, my finance team and I have carefully reviewed the Biennial Budget that was transmi ...

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BREAKING NEWS: Medicaid Expansion Moving Forward!

BREAKING NEWS: Medicaid Expansion Moving Forward!

Today, we have terrific news to share!We are very excited with Governor Terry McAuliffe’s decision to line-item veto the obstacles in the budget that legislators put in his ...

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Medicaid Expansion “Good” for Va. Budget, Healthcare System

Medicaid Expansion “Good” for Va. Budget, Healthcare System

Published by the Public News Service on June 20, 2014by Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - As the fight over Medicaid expansion continues, budget numbers from around the nation sugges ...

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