Throughout its history, North Omaha has launched the dreams of many people. Yet, the instances of dreams launched and fulfilled have been too infrequent for too many people. For much of its history, North Omaha has suffered from disinvestment and a scarcity of hope. Racism, despair and distrust have turned dreams to nightmares at different times in the community’s history.

Working families across New York State need the security of paid time off to care for a new child or seriously ill family member. For too many workers, the birth of a child or family health emergency creates a crisis that forces them to lose needed income or exit the workforce altogether. Low-income workers and their families are especially vulnerable because they often lack the financial resources to take any unpaid time off at all. Paid family leave improves the health of our families. It helps workers, especially new mothers, stay in the workforce after childbirth and helps close the wage gap. And businesses benefit by having more productive workers and reduced turnover. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act is unpaid and excludes more than 40% of all workers. The Paid Family Leave Insurance Act for New York State would provide workers with partial payment of their salary for up to 12 weeks to bond with a new child, care for a seriously ill family member, or address certain issues arising from a family member’s military service. Employers would not bear the cost of this benefit. Instead, paid family leave insurance benefits would be funded by employees through small paycheck contributions. Working families in New York deserve better. It’s time for Governor Cuomo to follow in California’s, New Jersey’s, and Rhode Island's footsteps and make paid family leave a priority now! You can learn more about the bill and campaign here: http://abetterbalance.org/web/nyneedspfl And read more about A Better Balance’s efforts to advance the rights of working families at www.abetterbalance.org.

To create demand for American made products we want all local, state and federal purchases for construction, maintanance, and supplies be at least sixty percent made in USA, with a goal of at least 90 percent by Jan. 1, 2015. This includes School districts and all city, state and national purchases for office supplies, building and maintenance.

Super Pacs are changing the way politics are played. Elections are increasingly costly. Campaigns continue to focus on negativety and not the issues

Don't pass any laws that lower the unemployment compensation . Up the amount that people on unemployment receive. $240 Is not enough to live on especially for people with children . Repeal any laws that targets racial profiling like hispanics and blacks ! Give more money to the schools for education !

Keep almost 3 billions of dollars from going to the big oil companies on april 15!

It now appears as if the State of Colorado has the necessary revenue to reinstate the so-called "Seniors' Homestead Exemption" to give seniors a break on their property taxes (Denver Post, Mar. 27, 2012). Those who qualify as seniors (65 years of age or older) who have lived in their homes for at least ten years,could again have 50% of the first $200,000 of the value of their homes exempt from taxation. The State has revealed that this tax break is affordable. For those who are watching their living expenses increase even as their pensions and savings remain stable, this would be a significant way to allow many to remain in their homes while maintaining a decent, if modest, way of life.

Lead Congress in reforming the tax code so that everyone pays their fair share and taxes are shaped to meet the pressing needs of our country and help to eliminate income inequality

The advertising business has a dismal record of hiring and promoting African Americans. Industry statistics support less then 6% are hired in the industry. Many major companies that have government contract refuse to hire Black owned firms. The industry is made up of mostly small firms that hire people that look like them. The African American owned firms are the only opportunities for minorities to get a start in the industry. The goverment and corporations must choose to make a difference in this area. This is an opportunity to for government to do something about the high unemployement in the Black Community. We are calling on the government to take a stand for African American owned firms by contracting directly with African American owned advertising, graphic design and communications firms.

My petition is about jobs and wages. Prices are going up. I feel if prices are going up, our wages should increase so people that are making minimum wage or a little over could keep up with the economy. People should sign this so they can see how many people struggle with their nickle and dime jobs and our wages have yet to increase so we can keep up.

Tigard Oregon is a suburb of the Portland Oregon metro area. Tigard is supported by local caring people who shop local businesses, and have done their best to keep Walmart out of our town. Now the Tigard City Council and Mayor have approved a deal allowing Walmart to enter into the city where concerned citizens have repeatedly pushed Walmart out. Again Walmart has behind the scenes negotiated for a store that will not only lower property values, destroy local businesses, increase traffic exponentially in a area that is already overloaded with traffic, take away more living wage jobs and take money out of our community. Want to become more involved? Visit us at: http://www.nowalmartintigard.org/

Prop 13 is broken and has been starving our state of desperately needed revenues unfairly. Proposition 13 has done a great job to protect the elderly etc from being forced from their homes by skyrocketing property taxes, but most people don't know that it disproportionately favors corporations. The majority of our property taxes used to come from business property, but now it comes from residential property. This must stop.