Priceless Vol 9 Number 7


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Women’s History Month: First Ladies of the US


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McAuliffe Announces $8.8 Million Grant to End Child Hunger in Virginia


Virginia is one of five grant recipients to test innovative strategies for ensuring all American children have enough to eat


2015 CIAA Basketball Tournament


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Delta Sigma Theta Hosts 102nd Founders Day Celebration


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Small Business Priorities: Corporate Tax Reform Must Include Small Business


WASHINGTON,


DC -- The National Small Business Association (NSBA) has unveiled its Top 10 Priorities for the 114th Congress, a result of last week's Small Business Congress in Phoenix and subsequent


voting by


As First Lady of the Commonwealth, Dorothy McAuliffe, center, has dedicated her efforts to eliminating childhood hunger and improving access to Virginia’s fresh, locally grown agricultural products for all our citizens. She has identified food security and nutrition as key elements necessary for educational success and building healthy communities. Photo courtesy of Virginia Office of the Governor


McAuliffe and First Lady


Governor Terry Dorothy McAuliffe


announced today that Virginia has been awarded an $8.8 million federal grant for an innovative project designed to help end childhood hunger in the Commonwealth.


The Virginia grant was among $27 million in awards announced by U.S. Agriculture Secretary


Tom


Vilsack in a speech at the 2015 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference.


was spearheaded by First Lady


Virginia’s proposal Dorothy McAuliffe,


and brings together key


stakeholders from the Virginia Departments


of Education,


Health, and Social Services, as well


as the Virginia


Foundation for Healthy Youth, the Federation of Virginia Food Banks and Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit focused on ending child hunger.


a


“Proper nutrition necessary


educational students at is ingredient for


success. In fact, it’s a certainty that


and economic sitting


their


desks with empty stomachs can’t concentrate on even the best teachers’


lessons. Our


students must have access to good nutrition if they are going to be healthy and strong and build


the thriving workforce


we need for a new Virginia economy,” said Governor Terry McAuliffe.


“The First Lady


has been a major champion of these issues, and has made it her mission to end childhood hunger in Virginia. She has


CHILD HUNGER PAGE 3 This Edition’s Highlights


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members. The number one priority for small firms is ensuring corporate-only tax reform includes some kind of workable solution for the millions


of pass-through small businesses. "The overwhelming


majority of small firms are pass-through entities, meaning


they are taxed


at the individual income level and could see an effective


higher tax rate


under corporate-only tax reform," stated Todd McCracken NSBA president and CEO. "This issue is clearly a huge issue for small firms, and will serve as a litmus test on whether


Angela Barber of Chesapeake Economic Development with Cynthia and Michael Smith, owners of American Orthotic and Prosthetic Center, Inc. as they receive a Community Development Award from the Hampton Roads Messenger at the 2014 Small Businesses Thinking Conference.


politicians truly do support small business." NSBA's Top 10 Priorities for the 114th


Congress are: • Corporate Tax Reform and Small Business


SMALL BUSINESS PAGE 4


Your Rights to Financial Privacy: How to Stay Informed


You're probably used to receiving privacy


notices from your financial institutions explaining how they handle and share your personal information. Federal law requires that you receive a notification about your privacy rights when you open an account, then at least annually, and again if the institution changes its privacy policy. And, in some cases, these privacy statements are available for review at any time online.


consumers don’t review these


Unfortunately, many disclosures,


which describe how your information will be used, whether you can choose to "opt out" or say "no" to some sharing of your personal financial information, and how you can do so.


"The privacy notices include important


descriptions of rights you may have to limit information sharing with other parts of the same company as well as with unaffiliated companies," said Beverly Shuck, Acting Chief of the FDIC's Consumer Response Center. "If you want to control information sharing, you should take these mailings seriously."


The privacy notices also will explain what you can't prevent from being shared.


This is likely to include customer information provided to outside firms that market your financial company’s own products, handle data processing services or mail out monthly statements to customers. Banks that limit their sharing to these circumstances will provide a


YOUR RIGHTS PAGE 2


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