The St. Paul Police Department likely will have less money to work with when Mayor Chris Coleman unveils his budget proposal this month. Serious cuts to the department will eliminate dozens of civilian jobs and end technological innovations. Paperwork that was once performed by civilians will shift to sworn officers. These new clerical duties will reduce the amount of time patrol sergeants are on the street. This also means there will be less time for intensive investigations, crime-lab procedures, stakeouts, drunk driving arrests, and riot control. Mayor Coleman's proposed budget cuts are threatening the very lifeline of safety in the city of Saint Paul. Tell Mayor Coleman the city of Saint Paul is unwilling to compromise its safety!

We want the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to pass a law that would make the City take the Community Jobs Program seriously as a training program for its own hiring pool. The law would improve the Community Jobs Program to make it a real job training program that fast tracks participants into available entry-level City jobs. The law would expand the Community Jobs Program to include more CalWORKs participants and County Adult Assistance Program participants, such as from PAES, GA and the Refugee Cash Assistance Program. For more information, visit our website http://www.livingwage-sf.org/transform-welfare-to-work/

We should all rise up against tax whiners. Taxes have gone down steadily for decades, yet the less the whiners are taxed, the louder they whine. I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more.

Workers at Musso & Frank Grill, the old Hollywood restaurant, have long been members of UNITE HERE Local 11. As union members, they have been able to count on good working conditions and fair compensation. However, Musso & Frank management is now trying to bust the union. They've distributed anti-union fliers to the workers, and supported a petition to decertify the union. We need to let the management at Musso & Frank know that the community stands with these workers. Tell General Manager Mark Echeverria to end his anti-union campaign!

Lee County commissioners work part time but make more than $87,000 a year. That’s more than double what some Lee County employees make working full time. These bus drivers, animal control workers, waste and water treatment operators and other public service workers, who provide vital services to taxpayers and keep our communities safe every day, continue to be denied raises. Many of them are struggling to keep up with their mortgages and put food on the tables for their families. If Lee County commissioners can make a living wage, why can’t workers, too? Sign the petition to tell commissioners it’s far past time to give workers a raise.

The Scranton Commuter Tax needs to stop.

We spend $14,000.00 to $25,000.00 to go to college for our education. We currently make minimum wage and 85% of us can't pay our bills, buy food or feed our children or even afford health care under the new affordable care act. It's sad that a 16 year old still in high school can get a part-time job making $.50 - $1.00 more an hour than we do. We work full- time and make roughly $600-$700 monthly that is $15,600 - $18,200 yearly. At these rates we can't afford to live let alone pay back our student loans. Some of us are so far in debt that we need to declare bankruptcy, however bankruptcy doesn't help with our student loans they are still there, they do not go away. So if not being able to pay our student loans and purchase just the basic needs to live and we declare bankruptcy when we come out of bankruptcy we are in fact still in the same sticky situation. Is it right for us to spend this money on education and be paid less than someone who is still in high school? We think it is unfair and we are demanding that this be re-evaluated.

A simple first step to keeping Social Security solvent is to tax ALL income. Millionaires / billionaires have been getting a tax break for decades by only paying Social Security tax on the first $110,000 of their incomes (which has slowly increased over time). So someone making $1 million a year pays on only $110,000; leaving $890,000 untaxed. Over time that adds up to lots of extra capital ! Why is this allowed ? Social security was never intended as a retirement instrument for the rich .... time to reverse this tax break !

Did you know that having a baby is a leading cause of poverty spells in this country? Shocking, but true, and one major reason is that because only 12% of Americans have access to paid family (maternity/paternity) leave through their employers. The Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act would fix this. Given that for the first time in history, moms make up 3/4 of the labor force and are the primary breadwinners for half of U.S. families, it's no surprise that paid family leave is an incredibly popular issue with voters across party lines. What is surprising is that only five — FIVE! — U.S. Senators have signed on to co-sponsor the bill so far. It's going to take all our voices, our letter signatures, our actions to get more co-sponsors. And co-sponsorship of bills matters. It matters because the more co-sponsors a bill has, the more seriously the bill is taken and the better chance it has of moving forward to full passage. The FAMILY (Family and Medical Insurance Leave) Act would provide workers — including those who are self-employed and/or work part-time — with much-needed income while they, or a family member, deal with the arrival of a new baby or a serious health issue. Eligible employees could take up to 60 work days (12 weeks) away from their job with partial wage replacement (up to 66% of their typical wages) to take care of themselves or a family member in a one-year period. Employees and employers would contribute just two cents for every $10 in wages. Self-employed and part-time employees would earn paid family and medical leave as well. No one should have to give up a paycheck to take care of loved ones. Let your U.S. Senators know you want them to co-sponsor the Family Act now!

I am a Certified Nursing Assistant who has been twice sued for eviction due to loss of pay from being sick from viruses and bugs acquired at my job. I have almost 10 years of experience and still have not earned the right to be sick from working with sick people and seeing that my state is fighting against my personal health and financial situation just makes me ashamed of my family for letting me be born in this state. Let's make ourselves proud of Indiana again! Contact your state senator or representative or the governor I don't care but please join this fight!

10 million union construction retirees and future retirees are in danger of losing ALL their pensions completely by 2022. The ERISA laws that protect ALL workers sunset this Dec.31, 2014. Companies and union leaders want to get rid of the NO CUT BACK provision in the current ERSA laws. If they change the laws it would affect ALL workers in the United States.

Politics and Solving the Nation's Problems - You are right, it IS all about money. The wider scope solution is to Support the National Employment Recovery Act (NERA). The export of jobs overseas is at the root of most of our issues and here is the solution.