In the health care field, it is common practice for workers to have to pass drug tests, criminal background tests, and get DCFS clearance. However, in the past several years, many companies, including most major hospitals, have added credit checks to the application process. This forces many otherwise qualified candidates out of their chosen field, and into working for less wages with fewer or no benefits. This practice needs to end now. Making gainful employment only accessible if one can pass a credit check is only helping to force individuals and families into poverty. Please sign my petition to make our state and national leaders aware of this policy.

The economic storms of recent years have raised concerns about growing inequality and questions about a core national faith, that even Americans of humble backgrounds have a good chance of getting ahead. Most of the discussion has focused on labor market forces like falling blue-collar wages and lavish Wall Street pay. But striking changes in family structure have also broadened income gaps and posed new barriers to upward mobility. If you or your children have been adversely affected in pursuing the American Dream, let your voice be heard in the election box and through this petition.

Only to the degree that I and the rest of America does not know what Gov. Romney did with his income taxes for the past 12 years.

It's about the practice of writing in fine print important details on any form of commercial advertisement or written contract, whether it be at an advantage or disadvantage to the assignees, that binds the parties and defines the legitimacy of an offer or contract. This is intended to stop practices designed to deceive and/or conceal the content, merely because it its hard to read. This is about outlawing any said practices or contracts to be illegal if it has fine print. Now, wouldn't that be something!

It's about the practice of writing in fine print important details on any form of commercial advertisement or written contract, whether it be at an advantage or disadvantage to the assignees, that binds the parties and defines the legitimacy of an offer or contract. This is intended to stop practices designed to deceive and/or conceal the content, merely because it its hard to read. This is about outlawing any said practices or contracts to be legal if it has fine print. Now, wouldn't that be something!

I pay property taxes for a mobile home purchased in 2004 for $69,000 and was denied General Relief help when I had lost my income. If the mobile home is not worth $50,000+ it is considered "personal property" which makes me ineligible. Yet property taxes are still billed for it? Finally granted S.S.I. of I $854.40 then due to an alleged utility charge error from some prior month I was billed over $900. for rent/utilities for the month of March.

Each time a cashier is replaced with a self-checkout lane, a job is lost. Supermarkets, Big Box stores, and retail chains like Home Depot are replacing American workers with self-service checkout machines. The profits continue up the chain to the CEO and jobs that could be given to students or part-time workers are forever lost.

Wal Mart has systematically destroyed viable business throughout the USA. There employees are paid so poorly they qualify for Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Section 8 Housing. Wal Mart does not produce goods and services in United Stated but sell to the US. How many jobs could be created in the America if businesses like Wal Mart moved their production by to America.

I am in imineint danger of losing my home to foreclosure because the President's initiatve on foreclosure prevention does not reach far enough to assist people like me. It stops a year short w/ your hardship having to occur after January 1, 2008 Instead of 2007. Also, the Big banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and CHASE have consitently denied assistance through modifications etc. to me and others who do not qualify for the mortgage protection program.

Here are some basic policies that would lead to the creation of 30 million or more US middle wage jobs.

Let's join forces: All 90% with income will pay more taxes, for 1) jobs for the 10%; 2) improved infrastructure; and, 3) deficit reduction.

Petition is to stop unfunded mandates by Federal government and by State government. If these levels of government want something done, fund it. Otherwise local budgets already "set" as in the case of County Commissioners, Town Councils and/or School Boards are put in a real bind. I have lived with this many times at the local level and it is disruptive in ways you can scarcely imagine! Fund it or forget it!