Numerous employers - like McDonald’s, Kohl’s, Sears, Qdoba, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell - automatically enroll or mandate that their employees be paid via high fee payroll debit cards instead of traditional checks. The debit card's fees - for everything for withdrawing money to checking balances - often take such a big bite out of paychecks that some workers end up making less than the minimum wage. It's time to end this predatory practice in Wisconsin.

An estimated bill is sent every other month.It is normally greater than the following actual bill.They have been dragging their feet about installing the automatic meters.

Since TransCanada first applied for a permit to build the Keystone pipeline in 2008, the State Department’s handling of the review has been plagued by conflicts of interest, insider influence and a heavy pro-pipeline bias. Rather than being an impartial judge of whether the Keystone pipeline is in the national interest, the State Department has acted liked Big Oil’s best friend in Washington. Friends of the Earth is calling on the State Department to halt the environmental review of the Keystone pipeline until the Office of Inspector General can determine how ERM, a firm with ties to TransCanada and the oil industry, was allowed to write the U.S. government’s environmental impact statement on Keystone XL and why no one at State investigated the company’s claims to have no such ties. We are very concerned that, in hiring ERM to write the bulk of the draft environmental review of the Keystone XL, the State Department: •Hired a company (ERM) that has worked for TransCanada in the past three years, despite signing a declaration that they had not done so. •Hired a company (ERM) that has done extensive work for many of the oil companies that stand to gain if Keystone XL is built, despite claiming on their official forms that they had no such ties. •Hired a company (ERM) that is a dues-paying member of the American Petroleum Institute. •Concealed evidence of ERM’s close connections with Big Oil, by redacting contractors’ biographies from ERM’s technical proposal. •Failed to use the thorough conflict of interest vetting processes recommended by State’s own Office of the Inspector General in 2012. Send a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry demanding that he halt the Keystone XL review process until he gets to the bottom of this blatant conflict of interest.

The banks have been paid for its mortgage loans. No one is on the hook for this money. Find a team of lawyers that can prove this point in a court of law.

We are facing foreclosure like many homeowners. We must stop this bill from being enacted. This bill protects the banks not the homeowner. It would prevent the homeowner from suing the banks for any fraud, robo-signing, false affidavits .

Subway funds hate radio with every advertisement on the Rush Limbaugh Show. Over 2,600 advertisers have stopped supporting Rush Limbaugh's shows, and Subway should follow suit. Join our boycott until they stop.

The battle against AIDS has some remarkable recent successes to report: 1 million babies treated with medication to prevent HIV infection at birth. 5 1/2 million people accessing lifesaving treatment in 2012, up from 50,000 in 2005 We are on our way to ZERO! Zero new infections and zero babies infected at birth; Zero AIDS-related moralities; Zero discrimination against those impacted by HIV/AIDS. But at the same time there is an imminent challenge to maintaining the good news: A massive global trade agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership, is currently being negotiated without public input. The agreement contains articles which would impose intellectual property and patent protections that would cut off access to lifesaving medications for millions living with HIV/AIDS. Through signing this petition you will be urging our President to fulfill his commitment to, "Ushering in an AIDS-free generation," while at the same time bolstering the image and perception of the United States throughout the World.

The LA Times, NYTimes, NPR and other media report that 158 women have undergone sterilization in California prisons without the required approval of the state medical committee between 2005 and 2010. The sterilizations were not medically necessary and the victims report that they were coerced into the procedure. We demand answers -- the idea of forced sterilizations bring up the worst of eugenics and of 1939 Germany, not 2013 California. Who was responsible for these sterilizations? Why were they performed when not medically necessary? Why was one of the women's ovaries removed when she specifically told her doctor she intended to have children in the future? Involuntarily removing a woman’s ovaries or pressuring her into a sterilization while incarcerated is absolutely unacceptable. Demand Gov. Brown immediately launch an investigation to determine who is responsible and to ensure this never happens again.

Both the large banks and the Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs) conspired to develop and sell financial instruments that were illegally represented and sold to individuals and companies around the world. These investments eventually failed causing individuals and their investments to fail while Wall St were betting against the success of these investments and profited from the failure of these investments. In every case, an individual that attempted to perpetrate this type of fraud would be prosecuted and if found guilty, send to jail and fined (e.g. Bernie Madoff). The same should be true for executives of these financial institutions, they should be criminally prosecuted to the full extent of the law and held accountable. The SEC only has the charter to pursue these situations on a civil basis. The US Dept. of Justice must pursue this to insure criminal actions are prosecuted. To date, the Dept. of Justice has not taken on this challenge. If successfully prosecuted, the financial penalties should be returned to the individuals affected. The Sec, the White House and the Dept. of Justice have been communicated to without even a response! The petition is to "find and prosecute the guilty for this illegal action against innocent investors, fine them, send them to jail and return the lost amounts to the people negatively affected".

Junk mailers are driving our post office into bankruptcy. But no one in congress will discuss the elephant in the room: corporations which bombard postal customers with unwanted junk mail at subsidized rates.

Genetically Modified Organisms (most of our corn, soybeans and cotton) are being grown and consumed in Mississippi and they have never been properly, independently tested. The first independent testing being done in Europe shows reasons to be concerned. We should not be unknowing guinea pigs in this mass experiment. We should have the right to know if the food we buy has GMOs in it.

The destruction of my neighborhood