by MCDC | Mar 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
THE YEAR 2014 is only 66 days old, yet already Virginia has forfeited $330 million in federal funds — funds already paid to Uncle Sam by taxpayers — as a result of its delay in expanding Medicaid to cover up to 400,000 lower-income and uninsured Virginians. With each...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Beginning March 3, we’re putting up billboards—funded by small dollar donations from MoveOn members—in six states (Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Virginia). The billboards are designed to mimic current state tourism campaigns, and to call...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Health Care
Nobody serves in the military to make a lot of money. They do it to protect our freedoms and country. Yet too many of our men and women have come back broken — only to get kicked to the curb. A helpless, hungry or homeless hero is unacceptable in America! We...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Of the 50 House districts with the highest percentage of Medicaid recipients, 32 are represented by Republicans, according to a study by three political scientists at the University of Mary Washington. Those legislators are willing to forgo the federal largesse rather...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Citizens United, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video, Voter Rights
Senate majority leader Harry Reid gave a hell of a speech in Congress about the agenda of the billionaire Koch brothers, carbon barons who are the prime beneficiaries of Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that ruled that corporate persons had the free speech...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Economy, Education, Employment, GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video
Robert B. Reich: What are they really after? Connect these seven dots. Number one, they’re against extending unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for more than six months, even though there is still only one job for every three unemployed....
