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Delegate Kory and Friends of Guest House Host Emotional Discussion of Female Inmates and Re-entry
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Delegate Kory and Friends of Guest House Host Emotional Discussion of Female Inmates and Re-entry

  • By: Cindy Cunningham

Over the last couple years, the Virginia Department of Corrections has made the news headlines, and not in a good way: There was the death ….

ALERT: Require employers to provide break and space for worker’s to express milk, House Commerce & Labor Subcommittee 1, Tuesday Jan. 29.
  • 2019 Session

ALERT: Require employers to provide break and space for worker’s to express milk, House Commerce & Labor Subcommittee 1, Tuesday Jan. 29.

  • By: Cindy Cunningham
ALERT: Support insurance coverage for donated breast milk in House Commerce and Labor Tuesday Jan. 15
  • 2019 Session

ALERT: Support insurance coverage for donated breast milk in House Commerce and Labor Tuesday Jan. 15

  • By: Cindy Cunningham

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 22 hours

    I kid you not: the GOP answer to tariffs screwing VA farmers, fed workers losing their jobs and having housing/food insecurity, Medicaid cuts leaving millions w/o insurance & forcing service reductions in hospitals esp. in SWVA is to have more minimum wage exemptions. Gobsmacked.
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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 22 hours

    asks Feeding SWVA presenter whether people coming to their food banks are genuinely facing food insecurity, or is it full of fraud/waste as the GOP try to claim in order to justify their funding cuts? He responds it is absolutely real. "When we see the need, it looks real to us."

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    Feeding SWVA testifies in VA House Emergency Committee on Federal Funding Reductions on the importance of USDA support for their ability to feed hungry rural Virginians. Trump's USDA first quarter 2025 cuts revoked 130 orders, for a total of $3.5 million in funds.

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 23 hours

    Feeding SWVA testifies in VA House Emergency Committee on Federal Funding Reductions on the importance of USDA support for their ability to feed hungry rural Virginians. Trump's USDA first quarter 2025 cuts revoked 130 orders, for a total of $3.5 million in funds.
    Graphic shows in 2024 55% of food receipts come from donations, 15% are purchased, and 30% come from USDA money.
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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 23 hours

    Don't worry too much about China not being able to get soybeans due to Trump's trade war--Brazil is happy to pick up the slack after China enacts retaliatory tariffs! Who's the real loser? Virginia farmers.

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    More detail: $1 billion per year in soybeans to China. Just in Virginia. How's that trade war going to work out for us?

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    VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social 24 hours

    Notice anything about who Virginia exports their agricultural products to?
    Slide shows 20% of Virginia agriculture products are the result of trade, with $36 billion in exports (mainly soybeans, pork, wood products), going to Egypt, Canada, China, Venezuela, and Taiwan.

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