The New York Times report by the Pew Center is receiving considerable media attention today.
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:17 PM - Categories: Press Releases
This question will be the topic of a bipartisan policy forum featuring prominent journalists, former senior administration officials, and policy experts. Sponsored by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, the Center on Children and Families at The Brookings Institution and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University, the event was held March 5, 2008 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am at Brookings. Space is limited so please
Posted by VACAP Archives at 4:05 PM - Categories: Press Releases | Member News
Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced proposed legislation designed to protect and preserve homeownership for Virginia's working families and communities in light of current foreclosure trends.
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:58 PM - Categories: Press Releases
Julien G. Patterson changed the face of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Patterson, who recently concluded a one-year term as the first African-American chairman of the statewide business organization, "greatly raised the profile of the Virginia chamber among companies and organizations in which it was little known," said Hugh D. Keogh, the chamber's chief executive officer...
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:56 PM - Categories: Member News
Widespread abuse of painkillers and methamphetamine across far Southwest Virginia has led to a dramatic surge in the number of children in foster care, according to social workers struggling to cope with the boom. With mothers and fathers being led off to serve jail or prison terms for drug use, children increasingly are being sent to foster parents. That taxes social-services departments unable to afford new caseworkers, forcing them to spend time recruiting more foster families and leading them to send some children to homes out of the county...
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:49 PM - Categories: Press Releases
Homelessness and poverty are among the most misunderstood, patronized and politically expedient issues out there. Both political parties think nothing of using the destitute as a tool to score debating points against the other. Pundits - liberal and conservative - tee up the poor or the homeless to illustrate a point that strengthens their partisan argument.
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:21 PM - Categories: Press Releases | Member News
VACAP is pleased to report that a meeting with Kristen Fallon in Senator Warner’s office has been scheduled for 3:00pm on Thursday, March 6, 2008. Senator Warner’s office is Room 225 in the Russell Senate Office Building.
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:19 PM - Categories: Member News