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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 ...

A Thank You To All Of Our Supporters

A Thank You To All Of Our Supporters

Thanks to all our members, friends and supporters who joined us at the DAY FOR ALL PEOPLE with VACOLAO and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy! Thanks for your dedica ...

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Medicaid Expansion Is Right For Virginia

Medicaid Expansion Is Right For Virginia

Published by The Washington Post on January 18, 2014Virginia is one of the richest states in the nation but one of the stingiest in providing health coverage for the poor. Owing t ...

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Medicaid Expansion Critical To Job Growth

Medicaid Expansion Critical To Job Growth

Published by The Times Dipatch on January 19, 2014Editor, Times-Dispatch:Jobs are a critical issue in Virginia now. Employment opportunities are growing slower than the working ag ...

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Health Law Has Dual Deficit Benefit

Health Law Has Dual Deficit Benefit

Published by The Daily Progress on January 19, 2014Many people ask how the Affordable Care Act subsidies are paid for, and many are uninformed or misinformed, claiming the ACA wil ...

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Virginia Organizing Releases Statement on U.S. Senate’s Failure to Support the Unemployed

Virginia Organizing Releases Statement on U.S. Senate’s Failure to Support the Unemployed

 For Immediate Release: January 16, 2014Petersburg, Va.—In response to the U.S. Senate’s recent failure to support the unemployed with the vote not to extend unem ...

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Uninsured need Medicaid expansion

Uninsured need Medicaid expansion

Published by The Times Dispatch on January 15, 2014Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli’s claims in his Op/Ed column, “Medicaid expansio ...

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BRAMLETTE: MR. HOWELL — WE WANT DETAILS, PLEASE, ON YOUR ‘ALTERNATIVE’

BRAMLETTE: MR. HOWELL — WE WANT DETAILS, PLEASE, ON YOUR ‘ALTERNATIVE’

By KATHIE BRAMLETTEPublished in the Free Lance-StarWHILE I have never met William J. Howell, I would think he is of an age to remember when Medicare began [“Responsible alte ...

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Marroni: My Promise to the Environment

Marroni: My Promise to the Environment

By Ed MaroniThe future of our Earth for coming generations is bleak if we of our present world delay taking strong action to remedy our Earth's struggle to provide us sustenance. ...

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COMMENTARY: REAL PEOPLE, HERE IN VIRGINIA, NEED MEDICAID

COMMENTARY: REAL PEOPLE, HERE IN VIRGINIA, NEED MEDICAID

Published by The Free Lance-Star on December 29, 2013By Eunice Haigler, Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg LeaderWHEN I WAS 17, I started to suffer from migraine headaches. Throug ...

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55 TAX BREAKS JUST EXPIRED – INCLUDING A BIG ONE FOR OFFSHORE TAX DODGERS

55 TAX BREAKS JUST EXPIRED – INCLUDING A BIG ONE FOR OFFSHORE TAX DODGERS

Published by Americans for Tax FairnessIn case you didn’t hear, Congress just let 55 tax breaks expire on December 31. Known as “tax extenders,” they cost about ...

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