The state of Iowa is giving even more tax breaks to the Orascom fertilizer plant. The state is considering offering the plant over 100 million dollars to bring in only 165 jobs, despite fierce opposition to the plant from both liberal and conservative citizens groups.

American Airlines is outsourcing to Bejing putting a thousand AA employees out of work! And it's called "American" Airlines?

The Texas legislature has reduced funding for beautiful state parks, resulting in threatened closure and a large backlog of necessary repairs to park facilities. State parks are an affordable alternative for many Texans. Each park is representative of the diversity of Texas flora and fauna. Many are regarded as "jewels" of the State Park System. The Texas Park and Wildlife Department desparately needs support. As many as 100 TPWD jobs are threatened.

I am currently unemployed..and I have been for over two years off and on.My major issue is not being able to get free training becuase I am not poor yet I do not have enough money to take classes and keep my house and take care of my wife (who has also been unemployed) and daughter.

Steak 'n Shake is a bare-bones employer. No vacations or full-time unless you are a manager, and no holiday pay. On top of that, they are taking 2.5% out of server's credit card tips to pay for financing fees. The amount may not seem like much, but can add up very quickly. If someone leaves a $2 tip on credit card, Steak 'n Shake will take a nickel. Every time. That's just on a $2 tip! Tell Steak 'n Shake to stop taking our money to pay for their expenses!

What seems to have been lost in all of the rhetoric is the belief that we can isolate an issue and simply vote on it. Most issues involving the economy, energy, environment, government, and jobs are interrelated. We can solve this in a way that benefits mankind and the country by mandating this one thing.

Petition to the state assembly and Governor of New York, requesting support for worker cooperatives and non-profit real estate trusts in low income communities in New York City.

The American people are still suffering from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. With their lucrative, risky gambling, big banks may trigger another crisis requiring a taxpayer bailout to save the economy from total disaster.

Everyone uses hot water for bathing, cleaning, etc, yet less than 1% of homeowners use solar energy to heat that water. This low participation is costing 80 million homeowners about $43 billion each year. This petition is to our federal lawmakers to provide a 20 year loan to any willing homeowner to purchase a solar water heating system with no up-front money required. The savings would be double the loan payment. In other words homeowners make money even during the payback period. Based on 60 million homeowners and 5 hours of sunshine per day, some of the benefits include creating a million jobs, save homeowners over 1/4 electric bill, lower coal consumption by 1/8 US yearly output, reduce CO2 pollution equal to removing 25 million cars, offset 120 power plants of 250 megawatts each. This will start a culture of real solar energy use as our economics and environment demand.

In 1999 I ran for city council in Indianapolis with a friend who was running for mayor. A principal plank in the platform was to have the city of Indianapolis enact an ordinance requiring the city-county governments to pay living wages to all its employees. Although our party (which we called Our Party) was not elected, we were effective in raising awareness of the issue in Indianapolis and the successful candidate for mayor did raise city workers' wages as much as $4,000.00 a year for some employees and later raised county workers pay and equal amount.

Seeking to extend Debt and Tax Forgiveness legislation to help protect homeowners attempting to modify or settle on existing home loans or through the Short sale or foreclosure processes. Many of these protections, both Federal and State are set to expire at the end of 2012. Allowing this to happen with only extend the recession and keep the Real Estate market deflated and stagnant. There are an enormous number of people in this country who are still caught up in underwater properties and our economic recession will not improve until something more is done and allowing these to expire will most certainly have a negative affect on any recovery. This legislation makes it more feasible for homeowners facing tough decisions to attempt to work with lenders to find acceptable terms and protects the homeowner from unfair and often unknown tax liabilities when trying to better their economic situation caused by the Real Estate collapse. My wife and I own a severely underwater property in Ventura, California and are seeking to modify our loans or possibly obtain a Principal Reduction on the first and/or a settlement on the Second so we can stay in the home we love. I was laid off from a job in the Architectural community almost three years ago so my income dropped by roughly 75% and we have been struggling to make or mortgage payments ever since then. If we are able to get a principle reduction (after 2012) we will face a Tax liability from the Government (in the form of a 1099) which seems like adding insult to injury as we have been so negatively affected by the role the banks played in this collapse and our household income was so drastically reduced. We are left with few options other than short sale or foreclosure, however if the Legislation is not extended we face the ominous threat of a civil action to attempt to collect after that process as well. It is nearly a no win situation for homeowners like us if we allow these protections to expire. Everyone who owns a property is affected if we allow this trend to continue. The Real Estate market affects the entire economy, regardless of if you are underwater on a property or not; this affects your homes value.

It amazes me that our own government would sign free trade pacts with countries that do not have the same standard of living, epa regulations, and worker safety standards as the United States. There is no possible way that we as workers can compete with countries that pay such small wages.This only promotes our manufacturers to go where they do not have to pay a fair wage for a days work. These pacts were supposed to bring up the standard of living in the countries we signed them with but the opposite is happening.