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.

I have waited tables and bartended for over 5 years. Many members of the service industry, myself included, have been victims of tip/wage violations, due to the relaxed enforcement and loose rules pertaining to tip wage and tipping. Tips are not guaranteed, and depend on the generosity of the customers, assuming they know how tip wage works.

Connecticut has one of the highest gasoline and diesel taxes in New England and has the ninth highest gasoline tax in the nation. Governor Malloy started off 2018 by announcing his plan to increase the gasoline and diesel tax by 7cpg, creating a new $3 tax on each tire sold in CT, in addition to funding the special transportation fund (STF) through implementing tolls. It's time to communicate to the state that we cannot afford any additional tax at the pump. Help rely this message by signing this petition to stop the gasoline tax increase and toll implementation.

Right now, huge corporations, like Walmart, are getting tax breaks for handing out obscene CEO bonuses. The tax code sets a $1 million limit per executive for the amount of pay that corporations can write off their income taxes. But the problem is that there’s a loophole that exempts “performance-based” pay. So, corporations are shelling out huge CEO bonuses to pay less in taxes. For example, during the past six years, Walmart pocketed $298.6 million in fully deductible “performance pay,” lowering the company’s federal tax bills by $104 million. At a time when so many Americans are struggling to find well-paying jobs and pay for basic things like healthcare, education, and housing, it’s wrong and unacceptable to give corporations tax breaks for shelling out multi-million dollar CEO bonuses. It’s time to close this performance pay loophole and end tax incentives for outrageous CEO pay.

Some members of Congress have been up to something that's unpatriotic: They want to create a tax "holiday" for huge corporations that have been stashing profits offshore to get out of paying their fair share of taxes here at home. Let’s tell Congress to fix our infrastructure by making sure that corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Big corporations from Apple to General Electric to Bank of America have more than $2 trillion in profits offshore, much of it in tax havens. They're eventually supposed to bring most of those profits home and pay U.S. taxes on them, but get this: There's no deadline for them to do so. These corporations are heavily lobbying Congress to let them bring those profits back to the U.S. at a tax rate that's just a fraction of what they would normally pay. The last time there was a special tax holiday like this, they paid a tax rate of 5.25% -- a small fraction of the official 35% corporate income tax rate. Meanwhile, our roads and bridges are crumbling, and the Highway Trust Fund that helps us repair and upgrade them will lose 30% of its funding in August. Some construction projects will stop, and we could lose 700,000 jobs. In a sense, we'll have a highway shutdown, like we had a government shutdown last fall. Some members of Congress want to pretend that giving corporations a huge break on their taxes is a smart way to fix our infrastructure. Democrats like Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD) and Rep. Sander Levin (MI) want to save the Highway Trust Fund by making it even harder for corporations to shift profits offshore in the first place by changing their corporate address to a tax haven. Tell Congress: Big corporations depend on our roads and bridges, too. Make them keep their profits in the U.S. and pay their fair share of taxes. They owe our country. They should pay their fair share like we all do.