I have no significant debt and our family owns our house free of mortgage. I think that it is only fair for our citizens to0 be relieved of more pain and to start to be happy again. This was a blood bath and the blood is in everybody's hands. At the very least, the private debt o0f every family with an income below 50K should be reset to zero.

This petition is mainly to help keep our money in our community of Decatur, IL. We have many empty lots for new stores and if someone opened a popular store it would help make money for our mall and community. Many people order online from the stores we do not have or go out of town for them, why can't we just bring them here or start a petition to see how many people really want Hollister to come to the Decatur, IL (Forsyth) mall.

I earned $22.68 too much in my high quarter to qualify for unemployment this winter and there are others who were affected with even lower amounts. As a Construction Inspector, I am required to work as the contractors do , sometimes putting in 60 to 80 hours a week in the "good weather" months, I have worked in the off season as an on call person for occasional tasks , but not enough to sustain my family. I along with others in the construction/seasonal fields sacrifice time with family, must pay for a lot of expenses on the road and feel this is a targeting of one specific group to lower the amount of people who collect unemployment when laid off through no fault of their own.

In his State of the Union, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 – an idea popular among many Republican, Independent, and Democratic voters. Shenna Bellows will deliver this petition to Rep. Susan Collins demanding she give 96,000 Maine residents a raise by supporting a minimum-wage increase. Can you sign this petition?

When President Obama gave his state of the union, he called for raising the minimum wage to give working Americans a chance to make a living wage. Senator Toomey said that he does not support the president or raising the minimum wage. Toomey said, "The fact is, [raising the minimum wage] prices people out of work." No one who is working should live in poverty. The current minimum wage is not a living wage, it keeps over 1 million hard-working Pennsylvanians in poverty, and does not take into account the rising costs of supporting and feeding a family. As a society, we must do better, we must provide a basic standard of living and a pathway to economic mobility. That is why, if elected to Congress, I will continue the fight that I started in the Pennsylvania legislature to raise the minimum wage and tie it to an annual cost of living adjustment so that we never have to have these fights again.

We'll deliver the petitions to Rep. Duffy's office next week.

My name is Rhiannon Broschat and I've been working at Whole Foods for almost two years. Chicago experienced severe weather on Tuesday, January 28 with subzero temperatures and high windchill prompting Chicago Public Schools to close. The dangerous cold and schools closing in addition to me being a single mother, left me scrambling for childcare and unable to find anyone to watch my special needs son. As a result, I was forced to call off work to stay home and care for him. Whole Foods, instead of understanding my difficult situation, fired me. Recently, Whole Foods promised a more fair attendance policy which includes excused absences for "a metro wide weather disaster, which affects a significant number of people." I work hard every single day to make Whole Food's a thriving business, yet they claim I was abusing their attendance policy. Stand with me as I protest this unfair termination and demand that Whole Foods immediately reinstates me!

It has become increasingly obvious that the wealthy and the big corporations are not paying their share of income taxes, and that our tax code system is written so they can get away without paying . This leaves it only up to the working class and middle class to pay for it all and this is totally unfair.

SJR 10, introduced into this legislative session by Senator Ortiz y Pino, is a Constitutional amendment that would allow for the legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana in New Mexico. If passed by both the House and Senate, SJR 10 would appear on the ballot in next November’s election where voters would then decide whether or not they want legal, taxed, and regulated marijuana in New Mexico. New Mexico would see between $19 million and $20.82 million in annual tax revenues from the legal sale of marijuana and the state would save over $33 million on police, courts, and corrections costs from no longer enforcing marijuana prohibition. A majority of New Mexicans favor the full legalization of marijuana.

Recently, Ypsilanti Township sent notice to cease sales of anything other than clothing/apparel. Our purpose is to have a reputable thriving business that will benefit the residents of Ypsilanti Township and surrounding communities by purchasing items from auctions and/or estate sales and selling those items at a low, affordable price. Such items would include; dishes, house wares, kitchen wares, home decor etc. With the economy at a low we feel the items we sell are beneficial to our customers. We, the undersigned, request that you allow Beacon Hair Design to continue selling other items in addition to clothing/shoes/purses so they may continue to help the community purchase items at low prices that are in like/new condition.

Despite the fact that New Jersey has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, the NJTA is considering a privatization plan that could cost hundreds of New Jersey residents and tax payers their jobs. This plan would result in a lower quality of life for toll operators while having no proven benefit for New Jersey motorists. New Jersey's tolls bring in more than $1.6 Billion annually. The best case scenario has privatization saving between $5 and $6 million a year. This plan would have a slight benefit for New Jerseyans at the expense of hundreds of working families.

UPDATE: We will be rallying AT the offices of the Roseville Press-Tribune on Friday, February 28 at 5 pm to CALL FOR A CANDIDATE WHO SUPPORTS EXTENDING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. The office is at 188 Cirby Way, Roseville CA 95678. This is a @@Petition. As such, all signers will receive regular email updates for as long as the petition is active. You can easily find these email updates by looking for the "@@" in the Subject line of you email inbox. ps. you may contact me directly via the link (my name in red text) under the title of this petition.