The LGBT community needs to be protected from discrimination in the work place. Employers in most areas of the country can refuse to hire - or even fire - someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. ENDA needs to be passed to protect us.

State laws permitted by section 14(b) of the taft-hartley act that provide in general that employees are not required to join a union as a condition of getting or retaining a job. Therefore, when a state passes a right-to-work law, it prohibits both mandatory union membership and initiation fees and dues obligations of agency shops, and permits employees who do not voluntarily pay dues and initiation fees to receive the benefits the union provides. Unions call such people "free riders." This law breaks the foundation of the unions, and sets apart further the pay gap between the now uber rich and working poor. This law has nothing to do with " rights at work" but a ploy with a twist of words to break unions. The last resort for a fading Middle Class, that was set by unions.

Our country is drowning in debt and it's nobody's fault but our own, somebody with legal expertise please take this, edit it into the proper format for a petition and run with it !

We care about this issue because young people (and many other groups) in Massachusetts need the services provided by our state budget. Yet elected officials frequently shy away from raising taxes, and when they do, they inevitably hurt the poorest among us.

It’s crunch time. A bill to raise New Jersey’s minimum wage is sitting on Governor Christie’s desk, and there’s only days left for him to sign it. The bill would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50. Better still, it would raise the wage each year to keep pace with inflation. Raising the minimum wage will drive up wages for all workers, create jobs, and give New Jersey's struggling economy a much needed jolt. Governor Christie needs to listen to the 76% of residents who favor the bill and sign it now.

New York's minimum wage has risen only 10 cents since 2007, and today remains decades out of date. If the state's minimum wage had simply kept pace with the rising cost of living since 1970, it would equal more than $10.70 per hour today. Instead, the current minimum wage remains stuck at $7.25 per hour, which translates to just $15,080 per year for a full-time worker. Governor Cuomo called for raising New York's minimum wage to $8.75 per hour during his 2013 State of the State address. Now the legislature must deliver. The Independent Democratic Caucus must use its leadership power in the New York Senate to support legislation that raises New York's minimum wage to at least $8.75 per hour and indexes the minimum wage to automatically rise with the cost of living each year.

For too long the working poor and lower middle-class have suffered at the hands of businesses big and small,facing frozen wages,cut hours and few benefits if we were able to keep them! I have been very troubled at my job at a plastics factory with the lack of effort in getting new customers and thus,we are stuck with cutbacks and frozen wages for multiple years!!

American workers are tired of government changing social security retirement age because they raided the SS lockbox money for pet projects and pay backs to supporters.. Letting them retire at 50..and getting pensions after six years is nothing less than stealing...END THEIR DOUBLE DIPPING...CLEAN up the special priveleges in Washington ...make congress and government employees live, work, retire under the same rules we are given. Taxpayers should be voting on their wages, benefits and perks. End the lucrative budgets they our given ...spending $220,000 on a bathroom remodel for one congressional office is mismanagement of the taxpayer money. Making taxpayers pay someone $102,000 to walk the presidents dog is beyond ridiculous.

The ledger of every American government agency, at all levels of government, should be posted to internet at the close of business each day. The ledger should include all income and expenses.

This is long over-due, "The curse of proverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization.... The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the immediate abolition of poverty" Martin Luther King

Texas State Rep. Yvonne Davis has filed HB 535, the "Buy American" bill. This bill would require state agencies to give preference to purchasing goods made in Texas or the U.S. when the option is available. If products are not made in Texas at a comparable cost to other goods, the next preference would be to goods made anywhere in the United States. Millions will benefit by the Texas government investing in American jobs and America workers. Disabled veterans and farmers will be some of the first to benefit from such a law.

The United States Tax Code has increased to the point where no citizen, accountant or lawyer knows what is in the document(s). It currently stands at tens of thousands of pages and grows every year. People are powerless to try and understand the system and yet are responsible for being in compliance. Through lobbying, the system has also grown to benefit specific industries and companies without any way of policing the practice due to the excessive length of the code.