South Dakotans value hard work. But for many hardworking South Dakotans, the $7.25 per hour minimum wage isn't keeping up with the rising cost of living. Raising the minimum wage puts money in the pockets of hard working people who'll spend it on the things their families need everyday. That generates new business and grows the economy. And a lot of those folks will depend less on government assistance too. That's why the South Dakota Democratic Party and our partners have filed an initiated measure for the 2014 general election to raise South Dakota's minimum wage to $8.50 per hour with annual cost of living increases. Because South Dakotans want an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthiest CEOs. Stand with us and sign our online petition to show your support for our initiated measure to raise South Dakota's minimum wage. Together we can start making South Dakota a land of opportunity for all people again.

In a huge step for workers, the Washington DC City Council recently passed a bill requiring big-box retailers to pay a living wage of $12.50 an hour for employees at stores in the District of Columbia. Now we just need Mayor Vincent Gray to sign it into law. Walmart reaps $17 billion in profits annually and their employees pay the cost, taking home than less that $25,000 a year. The least Walmart can do is pay its DC workers a living wage. Tell Mayor Gray to stand with working families and the DC community and sign the Large Retailer Accountability Act so that our workers can earn a living wage.

Student loans are the exception to the rule of Bankruptcy Laws in American.Student loan debt is now estimated at $1.2 Trillion,yet the bigger problem this debt is growing at it's fastest pace to date! The banks have declared $3 Billion noncollectable a 36% surge from the year before.Every child should be afforded the opportunity to live The American Dream

Stop discriminatory practices against minority employees at the VAMC and enforce regulatory procedures to insure that promotions and hiring practices are fair for all VAMC employees including veterans.

Being charged with one felony, and only one felony. It's over 13-years-old and you haven't committed another crime since you were convicted, but they're still holding it against you. It's stopping you from getting a good job. You went back to school and got degrees, certification and still get turned down for jobs because this one felony.

On July 10 the D.C. City Council passed the Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), a bill that requires large retailers to pay their employees $12.50 an hour. This means that any company that has 75,000 square feet of space in D.C. and at least $1 billion in revenue each year has to pay its workers a living wage. The bill passed the Council 8-5 and now goes to Mayor Vincent Gray’s desk for his signature. Wal-Mart has launched an all-out assault of threats to D.C., including the mayor. It says that if the law is passed, it will pull out of three planned projects in the District. We need to tell Wal-Mart that D.C. deserves better. We need Mayor Gray to make the Large Retailer Accountability Act law.

30 million hard working minimum wage workers earn less now than they did 45 years ago.

Impeach all signers of the Grover Norquist agreement for breach of contract due to the explicit conflict between the agreement and the U.S. Constitution they swore to uphold.

He is using US taxpayer money to open and operate Medreses ( Moslem indoctrination) schools. He also is not paying sufficient taxes due to having a farm which is being used to help Moslem extremists around the world. He helped to establish an Islamist government in Turkey and put thousands in Jail and help infiltrate police. Now trying to take over military which is a true US ally.

The City of Santa Fe currently has a minimum wage of $10.51 an hour. This wage helps working families to provide for themselves and their children and to be stronger parts of their communities. Now we have the chance to expand this $10.51 minimum wage to the rest of Santa Fe County. Will you sign the petition to the Santa Fe Commission now?

We work at Guitar Center and we are organizing across the country to improve wages and working conditions for all Guitar Center employees. We love our jobs and our passion is helping our customers achieve their musical dreams. But we often have trouble making ends meet, thanks to low wages and fluctuating hours. We are asked to do many non-selling tasks which hurt our commissions. Sales workers do not receive sick days, health benefits are expensive and part timers are not even offered health benefits. It’s been an exciting year for the Guitar Center campaign: workers in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas have successfully organized a union at their workplaces, over 100 bands and artists have endorse the campaign, and tens of thousands of people have signed petitions supporting us. However, the company has responded by refusing to give us a fair contract and has launched an aggressive campaign to bust the union. The company’s last offer is worse than non-union stores. It is meant to punish us for standing up for ourselves. Our union has been forced to file charges detailing the company’s bad faith negotiating and union busting. We now say: Enough is Enough. We are asking the public to support us as we enter the final stages of negotiations! Sign the petition below to help us get a fair contract and a support our union. Artist Endorsees: Tom Morello Kathleen Hanna Roger Waters Ted Leo A Wilhelm Scream Activator Alan Cage (Quicksand) Aloe Blacc Alvvays And We Danced Andy Nelson (Paint it Black, Ceremony, Dark Blue) Anoraak Anti-Flag ¡Aparato! Arms Aloft The Attic Ends B. Dolan Beast Patrol Beneath Acacia The Bennies Bent Shapes Bevel Summers Bigger Thomas Billy Bragg B*tch Bluffing Bones Jugs N Harmony Bonesetters Boots Riley (The Coup) Born in a Cent Brass Messengers Breedloves Burn Everything Cambalache Canasta The Cell Phones Chaotic Noise Marching Corps Chicano Batman Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) Chris Frasco Chumped Chunkie Soup Circa '95 Claudio Rivera (Motion City Soundtrack) Computer at Sea Cory Johnson (Impending Doom, Sleeping Giant) Curtis McMurtry Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawamba) David Rovics Dead Leaf Echo Dean Wareham Devon Kay & The Solutions DJ Torch Downtown Boys Due North East of the Wall Elway Empty Lungs Eric Ayotte Et Tu Brute Evan Greer & Friends Ezra Furman and the Harpoons The Fatty Acids The Fever Haze Flaccid French Horn Rebellion F*cked Up Gameday Regulars The Gashers Gay Panic Glue Gun GoldBoot Gravity A The Grim The Grizzled Mighty Hold Tight! Homewreckers The Hood Internet Hostage Calm The Hoteliers I See Hawks in LA Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) Jasiri X JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN) Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) Jesse Malin John Darnielle (the Mountain Goats) John Wright (Railroad Music) Jonny Rumble Karen and the Sorrows Katastrophe Krill L Train Las Cafeteras Las Vegas Gangstaz Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) Leda Leftover Crack Local 802 AFM (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) Los Rakas Lyrically Illz Ma Jolie Matt Cross (Orange 9mm and ex-Guitar Center worker) Matt Pantelis Matt Reilly (Japanther) Max Bernstein (Ke$ha) Mike Golden & Friends Mike Park (Asian Man Records) The Molotov Mother Falcon The Muggs Murdoc My Body Sings Electric The New Diet Non Exotic On Your Marx The People's Whiskey The Remedies Paint it Black Painted Saints Paper Holland Pet Tigers Plague of Pilgrims Prawn Propagandhi P.Y.M.P. Quetzal Random Rab Ray Korona Rebel Diaz Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Rise Against Robot Death Kites Rocky Rivera Roger Harvey & The Wildlife Rosetta Rude Mechanical Orchestra RVIVR Saintseneca Sam Jayne (Love as Laughter) Sean Daley (Atmosphere) Sergio Vega (Deftones, Quicksand) The Sights Ski Lodge Slavic Soul Party! Slonk Donkerson Small Reactions Smalls So So Glos Sons of an Illustrious Father Sorrows Spiritchild Spoonboy Spring Heeled Jack Starlight Girls Stephanie Johnstone Steve Earle Street Dogs STRFKR The Taxpayers The Thermals Thee Oh Sees This City Called Earth Thollem Electric Tommy Siegel (Jukebox the Ghost) The Underground Railroad to Candyland Unicorn Fukr Vincent Cross Violent Bullsh#t Voodoo Visionary Vulture Sh*t War on Women Water Borders The Way Down Wanderers We Are All Savages We Are the Union Who Needs You Wilder Maker The Wood Brothers Zelienople Zuzuka Poderosa

My petition is in regard to pre-employment personality testing. Such testing should not be relied on in determining whether someone gains employment with a company or not because it may exclude people who are qualified for the job and are not a risk. The reverse is also true concerning qualifications and being a risk.