“$25 to thrive” means that workers need $25 an hour in the current economy where prices are up and Republicans are shredding the social safety net. Listen in as Leslie Mehta, a Democratic candidate in the House of Delegates, explains.

Medicaid cuts are the reason rural Virginia health clinics are closing. That’s it. That’s the caption.

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Richmond-area home care workers make $13 an hour. Or “teenage wages,” as Yolanda Ross, a member of SEIU Virginia 512, called it at a recent town hall.

Who would choose to lose their health coverage?

“The conditions have grown increasingly dire and horrible.”, according to MSNBC reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.

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