It's not enough to just increase the minimum wage. In fact, it just brings us all closer to the poverty line! There's no reason that people with Master's degrees should be living check to check!

Homeowners are facing a financial crisis and are afraid of losing their home to foreclosure. Many have lost their jobs due to no fault of their own and are still unemployed. The banks were bailed out and the homeowners were left out. Wealthy donors make huge campaign donations to politicians, why not donate to a worthy cause, (helping a homeowner save their home).

Many people who are working full time are still living below the poverty level and need Government Assistance to get by. A modest increase to $8.00 would help many NC families meet their current needs and obligations.

Currently too many workers are limited by their employer in the number of hours they are allowed to work, so that the employer is not required to provide those benefits that are provided for full time employees who work forty hours or more. Under The Affordable Health Care Act for example, it is contemplated that many workers will be kept to under thirty (30) hours by their employer, who then is not required to provide the proposed benefits of Obama Care. Some individuals now work a number of different jobs totaling more than forty hours a week, but can never acquire the benefits that are paid to full time employees who work forty (40) hours or more a week for a single employer. Why should workers be penalized because employers "game" the system by keeping employees in a part time status to avoid providing benefits ? Some employers have even coerced employees to punch out while working so they will never attain full time status. Workers often have difficult work schedules. If workers were paid benefits proportional to the number of hours worked some of the inequity currently existing would disappear. Forty hours equals 100% of the employer provided benefits, twenty hours equals 50%, four hours equals 10% of the benefits. It is time to demand equity. Benefits should be proportional to the number of hours worked, not tied to the forty hour work week of the past.

American citizens are frequently asked to sign a paper stating that they will allow a potential employer to check their credit. This is a invasion of privacy. The information should be considered private and personal. It does not benefit the employer as there are various reasons why a person may have a low credit score or bankruptcy, such as due to a job loss or catastrophic illness. We have just been through a major economic collapse. Employers have no business requiring this information and it needs to stop. We want a law passed making it illegal for employers to ask or obtain this information.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in South Dakota and want to keep it the way it is.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in North Dakota and want to keep it the way it is.

After fighting for our homeland, he should have a home to come to. He bought this house so I could live with him and help raise his children. Due to divorce and my disability he could no longer afford to pay 259, 000 on a home that is now worth 70,000. The banks need to start working with families instead of taking their homes and selling them off to investors. My grandchildren are so sad they don't know where to come see Grandma. How do I tell them I am homeless. The shame and embarrassment of the sheriff coming to lock me out tomorrow May 12th on Mother's day is more than I can stand.

The current IRS code gives a massive tax credit to multinational corporations that pay taxes to operate in foreign countries. Each year, over $100 billion dollars are lost to our treasury, and used to subsidize the offshoring of American jobs, at a time of 14% real domestic unemployment.

Make the Oil Companies stop gouging the public in their gas prices

Gasoline Companies are gouging us in their pricing. A few years ago oil was $140 a barrel. and we paid $4.50 a gallon. Now oil is below $100 a barrel and we still have to pay $.4.00 a gallon.The first quarter profits of all the Oil Companies were at record highs

Currently, the 529 student savings plan is only useable in the current school year. The expansion of the plan to include student (and parent) college loans would enable students and parents to pay off their loans faster. The student loan debt load is inhibiting the entire economy, including housing, by preventing young people and their parents from taking on additional debt to purchase homes.