by MCDC | Jan 31, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Madison County, Virginia
The 2013 Virginia General Assembly chose to not act on Medicaid Expansion that would have provided healthcare coverage for low income families. Instead, the decision of Medicaid Reform and Expansion was delegated to The Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission (MIRC)...
by MCDC | Jan 29, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care
In their quest to repeal Obamacare, Republicans have faced two political problems. First, while the Affordable Care Act isn’t a popular law, polls show that the idea of simply going back to the way things were is far less popular. The second is that for the last three...
by MCDC | Jan 29, 2014 | Civil Rights, History, Income Inequality
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3...
by MCDC | Jan 28, 2014 | Action Alerts, Environment, Global Warming, Keystone XL, Video
America is being sucker punched. If Keystone XL is approved, the Koch Brothers stand to make $100 billion while the USA is left out in the cold. That’s because oil transported by this pipeline would go through our country, only to be exported worldwide. This is...
by MCDC | Jan 28, 2014 | Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
BY IGOR VOLSKY President Barack Obama will focus on what he has described as “the defining challenge of our time” during the State of the Union address on Tuesday: the nation’s growing gap between the rich and poor. What economists saw as a temporary aberration in the...
by MCDC | Jan 26, 2014 | Action Alerts, Issues
The corporate and political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in cities across America such as Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, and Leesburg to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers,...
