Paid Parental Leave EO a Win for Public Servants, Families Around the Commonwealth On June 26th, Governor Ralph Northam announced he signed two important executive orders: one is designed to ensure certain state employees who are welcoming children into their homes have access to paid time off, and the other creates a new commission to study childcare […]
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Progress Virginia Launches Campaign to Defend Family Planning
Title X Funding Under Attack from Republicans in DC, Congressman Dave Brat As leaders in the Commonwealth moved forward to expand health care access to hundreds of thousands of Virginians through Medicaid expansion, conservatives in Washington like Congressman Dave Brat (VA-7) are still trying to take away basic health care services from Virginia residents. After multiple failed […]
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Trump’s attacking women again, this time with an assault on Title X
Birth Control. STD Testing. Wellness Exams. Cervical Cancer Screenings. That’s what the Trump Administration and some Virginia congressman are attacking this time. Let’s start here. Title X is great. Title X helps provide essential preventative healthcare Title X is the only federal program that provides funding for reproductive healthcare and family planning—services such as birth […]
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Burdened With Student Loan Debt? Virginia Can Now Help.
Help is on the way for Virginians struggling with student loan debt. In June, Governor Northam signed a bill establishing a Student Loan Ombudsman for the Commonwealth, an office that will serve as a one-stop shop for borrowers to go to when they need unbiased advice on how to navigate their student loan repayments. This […]
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Trump’s healthcare sabotage is really bad for Virginia
Good news, Virginia! We finally expanded Medicaid. I’m just gonna let you soak in that glory for a second. Ok. Now, I have some bad news for you. It’s about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Health insurance premiums are poised to skyrocket next year in Virginia. Why? Because of the Trump administration’s efforts to sabotage […]
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Virginia Expands Medicaid!
400,000 Working or Disabled Virginians Are Now Eligible for Insurance and Access to Life-Saving Care Through Medicaid Expansion On May 30th, after years of debate, the Virginia Senate voted to expand Medicaid and pass an annual budget. “Medicaid expansion is a good deal for Virginians and for the Commonwealth,” said Progress Virginia’s executive director Anna Scholl. “It […]
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Progress Virginia Applauds Northam Veto Of Fake Redistricting Bill
Legislation Failed to Reign in Gerrymandering Abuses Invalidated by Federal Court Today we applaud Governor Ralph Northam’s veto of HB1598 and SB106! The bills, sponsored by Delegate Chris Jones and Senator David Sutterlein, purported to reform Virginia’s redistricting while failing to make any substantive changes to curtail politicians’ ability to rig elections. “Voters should choose […]
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Progress Virginia Strongly Condemns Trump-Pence Administration Restrictions on Health Care, Birth Control
Trump-Pence domestic gag rule is awful and will deny Virginia women basic information about — and access to — reproductive health care services Not content with skyrocketing premiums that resulted from intentional policy sabotage, the Trump-Pence administration announced today that they will target women’s basic rights and undermine sound medical advice by issuing a so-called Domestic […]
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State Senate Leaves Town (AGAIN) Without Doing Actual Work
Tommy Norment Wasting Virginians Time And Money Richmond, VA–Two months after adjourning Sine Die without a budget or approval for Medicaid Expansion and 4 weeks after the House of Delegates acted in special session to pass both, the state Senate returned to Richmond for two days this week to do…nothing. In a floor session and two days of Senate Finance […]
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Vickie is Our Hero
Hero or Zero? May 3 Welcome to Progress Virginia’s Hero or Zero, a weekly, unapologetically progressive take on this week’s heroes and zeros in Virginia politics. Check out this space every Friday, and Tweet us or post to our Facebook to nominate your own heroes and zeros. Like this? Please share! HERO: Vickie is our […]