About not adding more taxes to the citizens of the states

Everyone would like a little more dough in their pockets. Raising minimum wage will do just that in but a month or two. My mother works at KFC for minimum wage, yet she works so hard her wrist needs a brace.

Most wage earners receive compensation based on the minimum wage that is decided upon by Congress. Since Congressional pay is not related to the minimum wage and is automatic; then they have no incentive to put a cost-of-living increase into the minimum wage. Therefore; it is proposed that congressional salary should not have automatic increases and should be determined by a reasonable percentage of the minimum wage.

Workers at fast food and retail chains across Chicago should have at least $15 an hour and the right to form a union. Their employers are making huge profits, but aren't paying their workers enough to cover basic needs like food, rent, heat, health care, and transportation. It’s outrageous and it has to stop. The brave workers are willing to risk their jobs and their livelihoods to stand up and say ENOUGH – and we can’t let them stand alone.

I can not turn my head and allow workplace bullying. I have a new diagnosis with what I just experienced: PTSD due to a hostile work enviroment. I am still wondering if I am actually totally disabled from the bullying I just experienced, and am facing weekly appointments with mental health professionals. What can you do? I did talk to an attorney who said their's no law against "abusive work enviroments, that's why workplace bullying continues and is on the rise". Well, please help me to make an antibullying law, the bill is already written, and can be found under Mass.HB1766. Please everybody get involved! This is far too important to ignore, and is this worst form of discrimation as it has been brushed under the carpet for too long. I am just one of the millions that have been injured.

By passing a national law to create a 38-hour workweek, we can strengthen the economy and increase employment. For every 19 people working 40 hours a week, a new full-time job or two new part-time jobs can be created. With 114 million people employed full-time in the United States, decreasing the workweek by two hours will generate up to 6 million full-time or 12 million part-time jobs.

After passing pay raises for themselves, right-wing legislators in Bismarck approved a bill to deny unemployment benefits to locked out workers. If signed into law by Gov. Jack Dalrymple, it will give greedy corporate CEOs even more incentive to lock out workers to drive down wages and benefits for all of us. While we don't think legislators are currently overpaid, it does speak to their priorities when they are giving themselves a pay raise while taking rights away from working people. Tell Gov. Dalrymple to stand up for North Dakota working families and veto HB 1112.

Montgomery County Council: Don't rush a rezoning plan just to boost Walmart's profits. Walmart isn't right for our community.

With Austerity (AKA 'sequester') measures being imposed on the American public in an effort to reduce public debt, we as citizens must demand that those responsible for cutting or eliminating basic social and human services are themselves required to participate in cost-cutting measures. Nobody should be exempt.

Congress made a bad decision by enacting "Sequestration" and does not have the integrity to step up and correct it in the face of it's obvious and disastrous effects. Last week, they demonstrated their ability to act almost overnight when they quietly overhauled their own Insider-Trading Law (to their benefit), and they can do it again when it will benefit so many ordinary Americans in so many different and vitally important ways. The unintended and devastating consequences of this ill conceived legislation are far beyond anyone's ability to foresee and it must be repealed immediately in the interests of America and the American People.

Patrick Mara is running to represent us in the City Council, but he just doesn't understand what life is like for hard working low-wage families. He opposes raising the minimum wage, and he even opposes paid sick days for restaurant workers. My mother was a teacher, and she was laid off during DC's education cutbacks. Then she suffered a stroke. I had to leave school, since there was no money for tuition, and I had to start working to support the family. I am working as a server at a restaurant, getting less than $3 an hour plus tips, earning around $1000 per month. They won't give me more hours. I also don't get paid sick days. When my kids get sick, I am not able to care for them, without fear of losing my job. I can't afford DC's expensive rent, and I am currently living in subsidized DC public housing. I cannot afford child care, and my late shifts don't give me any time to spend with my children. I hope to go back to school one day, but find it difficult, supporting my mother and two children. How is anyone in my situation supposed to get ahead? Patrick Mara wants to represent us on the DC City Council, but he doesn't know what families like mine are up against. Will you join me in calling on Patrick Mara to walk a mile in my shoes? I'm not endorsing anyone in the City Council election next week. But I want to make sure that whoever is elected will support the issues that make a difference for me and my family.

This petition is concerning Companies who contractors provide services to on a regular basis and aren't paid for services rendered. This affects thousands of people if not millions of workers who are trying to make an honest living and can't receive compensation for their services. Most now with the economy are living paycheck to paycheck and deserve to be paid. As the governement does implement laws that allow large companies too obtain their funds for unpaid bills. Now! Do the same by making these companies pay up when services are provided and quit milking the true poor to middle classed individuals.