GAME CHANGER: Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to dramatically raise pay for hundreds of thousands of fast-food workers across New York state. This is what happens when workers join together, go on strike, and demand $15. Our two and a half year movement for $15 and union rights has changed the politics of the country, and made $15 a baseline for what working people need to support themselves and their families. In response, the governor of New York has convened a three-person Wage Board to decide on a substantial increase in fast-food worker pay. What happens next is up to us. Let’s make New York the first state in the union with a $15 wage for fast-food workers. Sign the petition and tell the Wage Board it is time for $15 in New York. Help the Fight for $15 win fast-food workers’ most important victory yet by signing on right now.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a plan to dramatically raise pay for hundreds of thousands of fast-food workers across New York state. This is what happens when workers join together, go on strike, and demand $15. The two and a half year movement for $15 and union rights has changed the politics of the country, and made $15 a baseline for what working people need to support themselves and their families. In response, Gov. Cuomo has convened a three-person Wage Board to decide on a substantial increase in fast-food worker pay. Let's make New York the first state in the union with a $15 wage for fast-food workers! Add your name below and tell the Wage Board: It's time for $15 in New York.

Texas has one of the lowest rates of pay in the Nation for Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) who provide vital daily care services to people with disabling conditions. In addition, these caregivers do not receive healthcare benefits or paid time off. The average salary of a PCA in Texas is $7.80/hour, leaving those who need assistance at a loss to hire dependable, qualified workers. It also leads to a high rate of worker turnover. Without the help of PCAs, thousands of people with disabilities, like me, cannot get out of bed everyday and actively contribute to the communities in which we live. We work. We pay taxes. We support our State's economy. And WE VOTE! So, don't you think that we deserve a better life for our employees? Please sign this if you think that we do.

We need to end the lack of Defense Department accountability.

Uber had just partnered with MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) to help reduce the deaths that occur due to drunk driving in this state!!! Just because the state of Kansas passed regulations similiar to 35 other states requiring criminal background checks and more comprehensive insurance rules for their drivers, Uber decided to leave Kansas completely, Killing jobs and making us depend on taxi drivers again(which are terrible by the way) Don't kill progress Uber!!

About 30 nations have a financial transaction tax as we had for over 50 years in the 20th century. Like the financial transaction tax of the UK, ours would be a tiny percent of 1%. Existing computerized financial transactions would make it easy to collect. Billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates strongly approve of such a fair tax. Please contact members of the US House of Representatives and ask them to sign onto HR 1464, the Inclusive Prosperity Act.

The Appropriations and Finance Committees passed a budget and revenue package that restored a lot of human services cuts that were in the Governor’s Budget. PLEASE call (most effective) your legislators and the Governor at 860-566-4840 or Toll-Free 1-800-406-1527 and urge him/her to support the legislature’s Budget and Revenue package. Please make these contacts this week. CT's most vulnerable will be seriously harmed if any of the original cuts were implemented. There are just 5 weeks left in the session – and we have a balanced budget proposal that we can and should support; the people of CT and the organizations that serve them CAN'T AFFORD these cuts!

Mayor Emanuel, Sen. Durbin, Rep. Quigley: You can stop this expensive mistake before it starts. Don’t waste federal, state and city $$ on an unnecessary Flyover that will destroy Central Lakeview. Apply Core Capacity funding where it can do GOOD, not HARM. What will the Flyover do? Shave 20-30 seconds off the daily commute for those living on Chicago’s Northside lakefront, the area which already has the very best transit service in the city. What about Chicagoans living in the vast transit deserts on the South and West Sides? GET THE FACTS: www.stopbelmontflyover.com Keep CTA’s RPM (Red-Purple Line Modernization) Project on track. It’s time to replace dangerous 100+-year-old CTA tracks, overpasses and supports, and update stations. But uncouple the Flyover. The Brown Line Flyover Is NOT Needed. 20-30 seconds. That’s the delay when a Brown Line train reaches the Belmont station at the same time as a Red or Purple Line train. The Flyover will gut Central Lakeview & Clark St., a thriving restaurant, theater & entertainment district. GET THE FACTS: www. stopbelmontflyover.com

Minimum wage in Georgia is barely on par with the federal minimum wage. Both are $7.25. Georgia is paying their workers $7.25 an hour, which is definitely not high enough, as it is the lowest minimum wage of all of the states. The minimum wage is required to be equal to or greater than federal minimum wage, so Georgia is giving their citizens the bare minimum. Assuming each person works 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and takes 1 week of unpaid vacation each year, that salary totals only about $30,000 a year. BUT, most jobs don't offer that much work time, and only will give a total of $13,000-$18,000 per year.

Our legislature is a captive audience and complicit with the many lobbyists who serve the best interests of their clients not the taxpayers. When will we ever straighten out this State?

HB 149 and SB 134 are universally denounced by fair housing advocates, attorneys, and disability groups as unnecessary pieces of legislation that pander to the brazen assertion that housing discrimination should actually be tolerated in Ohio. SB 134 makes an artificial distinction between so-called "actual" discrimination and that discrimination which is proven by time-tested controlled investigations run by private fair housing organizations. Among other regressive measures, the bill would lower the penalties for housing discrimination and damage the important safeguards provided by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC). Ohio residents would either need to use the administrative process provided on the federal level through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or be forced to use attorneys to sue violators in state court. In addition, Ohio law would no longer be "substantially equivalent" to federal law, thus ending substantial HUD funding to our state.

This will negatively impact the local business on Old Causeway Dr. To include Mellow Mushroom, SurfBerry, Lighthouse Beer & Wine, Redix, and Causeway Cafe.