Richmond, Virginia—Today, Cardinal News released a sobering look at how the health care landscape is poised to change for middle-income Virginians under the recently passed federal budget bill. Residents should be braced for significant rate increases to plans available through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, office and hospital closures, loss of access to Medicaid plans, and rising […]
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Virginia Is Experiencing One of the Biggest Immigration Crackdowns In The Country. Governor Glenn Youngkin Refuses To Say Who Is Being Detained.
Richmond, Virginia—Virginia is currently experiencing one of the most significant increases in immigration enforcement in the country. Immigration enforcement has risen in Virginia by 350%, a significantly higher increase than states like Florida and Texas, and approximately 2,512 Virginians have been arrested in ICE raids this year. Despite their claims that immigration agents would only be targeting violent […]
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Three Years After Dobbs, Virginia Fights to Secure Abortion Rights in Constitution
Richmond, Va. – Tuesday marks the third anniversary of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade and upended fifty years of precedent protecting the autonomy of pregnant people. Since then, many state legislatures have enacted partial or total abortion bans, and many more have started enforcing existing state laws restricting abortion; […]
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Opposition to Virginia Constitutional Amendment Resolutions Suppresses Voices of Virginia Voters
Richmond, Virginia— Lieutenant Governor nominee John Reid told the Virginia Mercury this week that he would be a ‘no’ vote on all three of the constitutional amendments that will appear before the 2026 General Assembly, including the amendment to change Virginia’s current practice of disenfranchising people with felony convictions. However, constitutional amendments in Virginia are ultimately decided by […]
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Record-Breaking Primary Turnout Leads to Progressive Victories
Richmond, Virginia—Turnout in the Virginia Democratic primary election this year crushed all previous records; more than 200,000 early votes were cast, 130,000 more than the previous record for early votes set in 2023. The result of that record-breaking turnout? Progressive successes up and down the ballot. “Last night’s results prove what we’ve always known: when more […]
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ICYMI: Virginia Early Voters Are Breaking Turnout Records As Primary Election Day Approaches
Richmond, Virginia—Earlier this week, Brad Kutner of Radio IQ reported that Virginia Democrats have broken their record for early voting, with close to 134,000 voters turning out and significantly more expected as Election Day nears. These record early voting numbers demonstrate the necessity of an extended early voting window for helping boost voter turnout. The longer […]
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ICYMI: Virginia International Students in Limbo After Trump Administration Revokes, Then Restores, Then Freezes Student Visas
Richmond, Virginia—The Trump administration’s decision Tuesday to freeze international student visa interviews will have significant rebounding costs for Virginia’s colleges and universities, the Virginia Mercury reports. In April, the Trump administration abruptly cancelled hundreds of existing visas, then just as abruptly, restored them after the cancellations were challenged in court. This week, the administration froze all interviews for […]
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Federal Chaos With Student Loan Repayment Leaves Virginia Borrowers In Limbo
Richmond, Virginia— Virginia has one of the most educated populations in the US: we are ranked seventh in the nation in the percentage of people (59.3%) who hold a postsecondary degree. We also lead the nation in student loan debt: 55% of Virginia college graduates hold student loan debt, making us fifth in the nation for student debt, […]
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Eight Rural Virginia Hospitals In Danger of Closing If Republican Cuts To Medicaid Are Enacted
Richmond, Virginia— Since 2005, two rural hospitals serving primarily Medicaid and Medicare patients in Lee and Patrick counties have closed due to financial difficulty. A new study suggests that if the cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the House go through, eight more rural hospitals (about 26% of rural hospitals) are at immediate risk […]
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Looming Federal Cuts Threaten Health Coverage for Hundreds of Thousands of Virginians as Medicaid Anniversary Approaches
Richmond, Virginia—May 30th marks the anniversary of Virginia’s 2019 expansion of Medicaid, which allowed a broader group of low-wage adults access to health insurance. Currently, single adults earning 138% of the federal poverty level (or $21,597 for a single adult) are now able to use Medicaid to see a doctor when they get sick and are […]