While Republican senators in Virginia’s General Assembly are pulling out all the stops to prevent a clean Medicaid expansion, eleven people are dying every week in the Commonwealth because they don’t have health insurance. Virginians are dying from a whole spectrum of preventable, treatable, and curable illnesses because a group of Republican senators don’t believe […]
Year: 2018
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Why Alex Drove 186.5 Miles to Protest Navient
My friend Alex has student loans, like a lot of us. After months of repayment, a new loan mysteriously appeared on her bill and her monthly payments shot up. So she called her student loan servicer, a company called Navient that contracts with the federal government to collect payments on student loans and help borrowers […]
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Progress Virginia Celebrates 1st Anniversary of Birth Control Mandate in Virginia
Some in Congress – Including Rep. Dave Brat and Rep. Scott Taylor – Could Undo Hard-Won Victory, Cost Virginia Women April 26th marks the first anniversary of Governor Terry McAuliffe signing HB2267, a Virginia law that mandated health insurers to provide a year’s worth of birth control at once — saving time and hassle, especially for working women […]
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Hands Off My Birth Control
Thanks to (former) Governor Terry McAuliffe, you can now get 12 months of birth control at once in Virginia. That’s great! It’s cheaper and saves you time. What’s less great? Congressional Republicans are threatening the access and affordability of birth control in the Commonwealth. How? By sabotaging the Affordable Care Act. Women & The ACA: […]
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Alex Wheeler Is Our Hero
Hero or Zero? April 20th 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: Alex Wheeler Is […]
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Los Conservadores de la Casa de Delegados Fallan en su Intento de Anular Veto del Gobernador de HB1257
Los legisladores estatales deberían enfocarse en la expansión de Medicaid, no criminalizando a los inmigrantes y refugiados Richmond, VA— Hoy, los legisladores republicanos de la Cámara de Delegados no pudieron anular el veto del gobernador Ralph Northam de HB 1257, legislación odiosa que criminaliza a las comunidades de inmigrantes y refugiados de Virginia. La Coalición […]
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House Conservatives Fail To Override Northam’s Veto Of HB1257
State Lawmakers Should Focus on Medicaid Expansion, Not Criminalizing Immigrants and Refugees Richmond, VA — Today, House Republican lawmakers failed to override Governor Ralph Northam’s veto of HB 1257, hateful legislation that criminalizes Virginia’s immigrant and refugee communities. The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR) finds it shameful that conservative members of the House of […]
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Progress Virginia Condemns Republican Rejection of Redistricting Reform
Governor Northam’s amendments would have ensured voters can choose their elected officials Richmond, VA—Progress Virginia, the commonwealth’s leading voice for progressive values, today strongly condemned legislative Republicans’ rejection of amendments to institute real redistricting reform in Virginia. Senate and House Republicans rejected proposed language to ensure Virginia voters can choose their elected officials instead of […]
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Student Borrowers and Advocates Protest Navient and Trump Tax Scam
Borrowers and advocates protested student loan company expected to gain $204 million from Trump tax bill This Tax Day, student loan borrowers, advocates from Progress Virginia and Generation Progress, and Virginia Delegate Marcus Simon (D-53), protested outside of Navient’s offices in Reston, VA, to speak against the student loan company’s $204 million windfall from Trump’s […]
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