The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that Virginia’s localities are bracing for more budget cuts and even less support from the state government.  With Governor McDonnell still unable to find funding, he is continuing to shirk responsibility and pass the burden from the state down to the local level.  Chesterfield is one such locality: “Education funding is especially worrisome to Chesterfield officials, who don’t know what to […]

That’s the headline of a new report released yesterday by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Institute, revealing the income gap in Virginia has grown dramatically, reaching a 30-year high. Virginia now boasts a bigger disparity between rich and poor than all but one other state. The news likely isn’t that surprising to the vast swaths of Americans who have […]

GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain is stopping in Lynchburg and Richmond this weekend, and has proposed scrapping the current federal tax system and replacing it with a 9% flat tax on personal and corporate income and a 9% national sales tax. ProgressVA has assembled a fact sheet on his economic proposals, highlighting impacts that have been […]

Yesterday, Senate candidate George Allen solidified his attacks on middle-class families, releasing his “Freedom To Work For Less” agenda that would roll back protections for workers. While targeting struggling workers, the Allen campaign did not release any plans to hold accountable the CEOs and big banks responsible for tanking our economy. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Post, The Roanoke […]

Not many Virginians are millionaires. But, a whole lot of our congress members are – and they shouldn’t be paying taxes at a lower rate than the rest of us.  They shouldn’t be making average Virginians pay more so that they can pay less: Its been weeks since President Obama sent his Jobs Plan to […]