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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Eleven People in the Coverage Gap Die Every Week in Virginia
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 […]
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Tax Scam Protests Come to Virginia
Tax season always make me moody, but I appreciate the fact that my taxes—at least until Trump’s tax plan was passed—fund investments in our country like building roads, hiring teachers, and getting my mail delivered. But this tax season, I’m feeling extra grumpy because now my taxes aren’t going toward the collective good of our […]
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25 years later, my mom’s union button is still relevant. Virginians need healthcare.
When I was a kid, my mom would go to work at Giant in Woodbridge wearing a red smock covered in buttons, demonstrating pride in her job and support for her union. At the beginning of 1993, she donned a new button that read, “Tell Hillary you want what I got: decent healthcare.” When my […]
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There’s Still Time To Demand Healthcare for Virginia
Friday, March 23 was the Affordable Care Act’s 8th birthday, and we spent the day celebrating the gains we have made and demanding that anti-healthcare legislators like Rep. Scott Taylor (R—VA-02) stop blocking our access to life-saving healthcare. Conservatives like Taylor have spent the last eight years trying their best to repeal the popular healthcare […]
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On the 8th Anniversary of the ACA, Rep. Scott Taylor Continues to Betray Constituents on Healthcare
Friday, March 23 marks the 8th anniversary of the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. The landmark bill allowed huge numbers of people to get affordable and desperately needed health insurance coverage. In 2018, almost half a million Virginians (400,015) signed up to get coverage through Virginia’s healthcare exchange. Without […]
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The Long Arc of Equality in Virginia
Written by: Shawn Meredith (guest author) Last year’s election was a momentous occasion for the LGBTQ community in Virginia. Not only did Virginians elect many new allies, but we elected our first transgender person, Danica Roem, and our first openly-lesbian woman, Dawn Adams, to the General Assembly. I have had the great pleasure of meeting […]
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Virginia House of Delegates Hides Opposition to Immigrant Rights
Haziel Andrade is a DREAMer, one of millions of young, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children by their parents. She grew up in Northern Virginia just like any other kid in the neighborhood — goofing around in the playground, attending public school and dreaming about her future. Unaware of her immigration […]
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Conservative Lawmakers Hide their Opposition to Minimum Wage Bills
Kristina McClure goes to work every day to support herself and her two children. But instead of coming home after a hard day’s work to her two kids, Kristina comes home to an empty house. Why? Because, as a minimum wage worker who only earns $7.25 an hour, Kristina had to ask her parents to […]