As the costs of housing, food, health care and other basic necessities continue to rise dramatically, Georgia’s minimum wage has stalled at its 2002 level of just $5.15 an hour -- the lowest of any state in the country. Georgia has one of the highest percentages of minimum wage workers in the country -- 6.4 percent of Georgia workers earn minimum wage vs. 4.7 percent of workers nationally. And about half of all minimum-wage workers nationwide are over the age of 24. In Georgia, a minimum-wage worker at the federal rate of $7.25 an hour would have to work 79 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. A majority of Georgia voters support raising the minimum wage, which would benefit hundreds of thousands of Georgia workers, their children and their families, while giving a huge boost to local economies.

I want to preserve the people's voice in how our economy works, not only for adults like me and my loved ones, but also for the children who need to have an economy they can thrive in. The TPP would devastate jobs, not only internationally, but also within the United States, in ways not seen before. It would even ban "Buy American, Buy Local," an effort that has preserved and grown U.S. jobs for decades. For more information, view these links: Expose the TTP website http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_BuyLocal.html Democracy Now! video clip and transcript http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/obama_mcconnell_pledge_cooperation_will_fast Public Citizen website http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5414

The American working and middle classes have been hit hard financially over the last decade and need some tax relief - a 10% increase in income tax when moving up from the 15% bracket to the next level is too much money out of the pockets of people who are struggling to make a livelihood. A modification needs to be put into effect before our next tax deadline.

Giving tax breaks blindly in hopes of the Corporations creating jobs is NOT a cost effective way to spur our economy. For the same 300 billion dollars the Government could have hired 6 million workers Nationwide to begin re-building our roads, bridges and schools.

I am starting this petition for all those people who don't have any rights who work in retail. My wife and I both work in the retail industry and every year have to give up our time with our families on Thanksgiving day, just to go watch other families having fun and hanging out. What makes people who work in retail any different? Should we not be able to have a day with our family as well? Is waiting one more day really going to change anything, are the sales not going to be there? Besides, every year you hear about another person dying over a sale, or someone getting hurt in a line. Is an object really that more important than a life? Materialistic things will always be there, but time with your family is always more valuable, and doesn't carry a price tag. Please support this and put an end to shopping on holidays.

A great University should be a force for fairness, but that has not been the case with the treatment of the 14,000 Teamsters whose hard work makes the University of California function. The University is all too happy to accept our members’ contribution to its success. But when it comes time to hand out well-earned incentive and bonus awards, the University excludes administrative support workers. To make matters worse, managers dishonestly blame the Union for the University’s decision to exclude our members, falsely claiming that the Union Contract prevents them from including the Teamsters in incentive and bonus programs. The truth is that the Teamsters Contract clearly permits our members to be included in incentive awards. Yet the University has systematically excluded administrative support wrokers from receiving incentive and bonus awards it gives to other employees. Such insidious discrimination has no place at the University of California.

Please tell California State Legislators to STOP approving a second-class system of medical treatment for injured workers and that the laws they approved in 2012 is discriminatory and unconscionable and needs to be changed!

As the Deputy Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a national organization that engages the faith community in worker rights issues, I’ve encountered my fair share of unscrupulous corporate bosses who strip workers of their rights and dignity on the job. As a faithful Episcopalian and divinity school graduate, whose experience of church and seminary led me to my vocation, I never imagined the day when I’d find myself rallying against leaders of the Church’s oldest seminary, General Theological Seminary (GTS). Today, Oct. 17, the GTS Board of Trustees ruled against pleas — from students, clergy, worker advocates and concerned people of faith — to fully reinstate the eight GTS professors (GTS8) who were recently let go for exercising their legal right to demand fair treatment and a healthy work environment. As custodians and overseers of an institution charged with nurturing the next generation of faith leaders, the Board of Trustees’ decision jeopardizes not just the lives and livelihoods of the GTS8, but also the integrity of an institution founded on Episcopalian values that includes the just and fair treatment of workers. The seminary has failed to live out its religious values, so it's time to look to the Presiding Bishop and Church for leadership and accountability. What the board of trustees has done is wrong. The Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, can make this right. Episcopalians, seminarians, clergy, people of faith and worker rights advocates all over the country are waiting for her to act. The GTS8 deserve nothing less than full reinstatement.

I live in Washington D.C., one of the highest cost of living places in the country, which makes it difficult for me and others like myself, to manage or even make it, without struggling on our income. This is due to being taxed the same as others making the exact same salary, but living in lower cost areas of the country. While salaries are typically higher in areas where the cost of living is higher, these salaries are not growing at a proportionate rate to that of the overall cost of living. This makes it difficult for people to afford to remain in these areas, be able to save for the future, and have an overall decent quality of life. Why? Because our tax system does not factor the cost of living and offers no breaks for people in high cost areas. Help me tell Congress, my salary is not equivalent to someone who makes the same as me, in a low cost living area. Our American tax system needs to account for the cost of living, which in turn, will help every social class, businesses, and our overall economy.

Removing political ideology from the question of state economies. Provide subsidized states currently have no incentive to improve their economies, this will provide an incentive.

The Minto West project in The Acreage could bring benefits to the community. It will help create a new business district and provide jobs for the community. Development of public parks and improvements to road and water network will help the Western Communities.

Make It Work is a community of women and men who believe that in America, in 2014, paid sick days should be the norm, not the exception. We think workers everywhere should be able to care for themselves and their families without fear of losing their job -- and that it’s about time our representatives thought so, too. Election Day is right around the corner. There’s no better time to send a message to candidates that if they want our votes, they need to show they’ll fight to make this country a fairer place to live and work for ALL of us. Paid sick days aren’t just good for employees and their families, they’re good for business. Access to paid sick days means employees don't have to risk spreading illness at work, and that they're more productive when they do come in. We won’t wait another two years to be heard. Together, we can change the conversation, but we need as many voices as possible to join in. Add your name in support of paid sick days for all workers.