Center is sponsoring three clinics for local workers; first is Feb. 15
The Virginia Interfaith Center is sponsoring at series of three Worker Clinics starting next week at the Sacred Heart Center in Richmond. These introductory sessions — Feb 15, March 1 and March 15 — will provide a...
Center’s Wage Theft Task Force meets with Secretary Todd Haymore, other state officials
Members from the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s Wage Theft Task Force met last week with Secretary of Commerce and Trade Todd Haymore, Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade Hayes Framme, Workforce Development advisor...
Tell Governor McAuliffe to stop Wage Theft!
Please sign this online petition urging Governor McAuliffe and Secretary of Commerce Todd Haymore to crack down on wage theft by making the state’s Misclassification Taskforce function as it was designed. In 2014, the...
SPECIAL REPORT: “The High Cost of Being Poor in Virginia”
Despite recent U.S. Census Bureau data showing reductions in the poverty rate and increases in household median income, more than 909,000 Virginians still face double jeopardy in today’s economy. Not only do they live...
“Payday Theology”
By the Rev. Vicki Kemper Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the...
‘Fight for $15’ activists gathering in Richmond this weekend
The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy has historically supported efforts to raise the minimum wage, both federally and in Virginia. This Saturday, August 13, four to five thousand workers who have been leaders in...
Kim Bobo has Letter to the Editor in The Times-Dispatch
VICPP’s Executive Director Kim Bobo wrote this letter, printed on Aug. 5, supporting a Times-Dispatch article on wage theft: http://www.richmond.com/opinion/your-opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article_dcc53199-f1ca-57bd-bb11-3381062cb389.html
Virginia Interfaith Center supports new federal rules on payday lending
“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” – Proverbs 22:7 The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy said today it strongly supports the Consumer Financial Protection...
Predatory Lending in Virginia
Why Can’t Virginia Protect the Poor from Predatory Lenders? RICHMOND, VA (December 23, 2014) – In this holiday season, when so many people are financially stretched and stressed, taking out a car-title or open-end loan...
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