An estimated 1 in 5 children in Iowa does not get enough food at home. Food banks have seen a 30-50% increase in demand. Support Senate File 2291, a bill introduced by Senator Jeff Danielson, D-Cedar Falls, that would help launch a $2 million program (0.03% of the state budget) to stock food banks when supplies run low.

Gas prices are so high, who can afford it? Lets tell everyone we are not going to pay for it.

This election year was to be about the economy and jobs, however, women and children have become the 2012 GOP focus. The proposed tax cuts in Oklahoma shift the taxation burden even further on the middle class. Abortion and birth control have nothing to do with the economy. Please do not penalize the middle class, children's education or women's right to health care.

RI State Senator Nicholas Kettle (R-Coventry, Foster, Scituate) is bringing the War on Workers to Rhode Island. Teachers are not to blame for the poor management and financial problems besetting RI school districts. Just like workers are not to blame for poor corporate management and Wall Street driving our economy off a cliff in 2008.

Our economy, environment and civil rights can be improved with one quick change. US State governments are realizing the potential of hemp in all it's uses by re-legalizing all over the country. Let's respect our historic rights and re-legalize it to stimulate environmental change and good business that will improve Missouri with Hempcrete for Construction, Plastics, Textiles/Clothes, Paper, Food, Medicine, Oils, Suppliments, Animal feed/bedding, and much more.

Forbes reported that AT&T was worth over $265 Billion Dollars in total assets. Forbes ranked AT&T 13th on Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the most powerful companies in the world. Why would a company ranked 13th in the world be laying off. Some may blame Greedy CEO's and Share Holders. Some may blame the fact that AT&T has out sourced many of its Middle Class jobs to Foreign Countries. Others may blame failed plans to buy T-Mobile USA. Regardless of who you blame, we all can agree that America can't afford not one additional layoff. AT&T employees are banning together with Communications Workers of America (CWA), hundreds of other Labor Unions, Politicians and Clergy, to put an end to the WAR on Middle Class Workers. AT&T proposed layoffs could cause foreclosures in your neighborhoods while their out sourced worked will create job opportunities, housing, and help build economies in other countries. That’s why it is extremely important that you join with fellow Americans to save jobs, and create jobs here in the United States of America. CWA is known for being a Community Minded Union. So should the company our Members work for.

Governor Bentley and the Alabama State Legislature are pushing an agenda that takes money from state schools, and from Medicaid, in order to balance the budget, while they enforce an extremely biased and unjust immigration policy and trample on the rights of Alabama Women.

Chronic underfunding of the NIH has resulted in evisceration of our national medical educational infrastructure, the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, severe damage to all 50 state economies, erosion of our internation edge in medical research, and the closure of hundreds of ancillary small businesses such as laboratory supply houses. The proposed flat budget for NIH next year will considerably sorsen this situation.

The Governor of Idaho just pushed through the legislation a tax break only for Idahoans who earn $36,000 or more a year. This bill only effect the top 17% of tax earners and is blatant pandering the the wealthy in the state of Idaho. This money would be better used reversing the cuts made in Medicaid then giving to the wealthy.

Indiana's legislature is close to voting away our state's inheritance tax. As it now stands, inheritance left to a spouse or charity is wholly exempt, and leaving a million dollars to a surviving child would incur a tax rate just under 5%, hardly destroying a family's fortune, while generating $165 million in annual revenue. At a time when state programs are needed to support infrastructure, education, and business development to create new opportunities, there's no reason to stop asking the extremely wealthy to pay it forward.

Tea Party Republicans are out to cripple the Postal Service, thereby eliminating up to 200,000 good paying Postal Worker jobs. The Post Office is fully funded through the sale of stamps, but Bush-era regulations require them to fully fund pension and healthcare benefits for the next 75 years, something that Republicans would never dare to ask a corporation to do.

Create monetary incentives for companies that hire unemployment insurance exhaustees. The 99er's, as they are known, are trying desperately to survive and find jobs while having no income. They are not asking for a handout. They simply want to be restored to the work force.