Hard working families and individuals are suffering because of taxation and excessive rent practices. The people's rent shouldn’t be calculated on the gross income, but by the net. Income tax refunds aren't guaranteed to a lot of poor families and minorities. What happens to the families and individuals who don’t get tax refunds because they owe student loans, but yet their rent is still calculated by the gross? The people are fed up; the government and states bail everybody out in these huge corporations, but not The People. It’s time we start listening to The People. Do you know how many working families and single parents this would help as much as the economy if this were to happen? We were not meant to just work and pay bills, but this is what calculating on the gross does. Let’s change this; let’s make this happen and bail The People out. Rent calculated by net, not gross.

We, the undersigned, members and retirees of Teamsters Joint Council 42 participating in the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund (WCTPT) urge you to oppose the Give Retirement Options to Workers (GROW) Act (H.R. 4997). This legislation weakens the entire multiemployer pension system, putting our retirement security, and that of millions of other Americans, at risk. WCTPT is the largest and most successful multiemployer defined benefit pension plan in the nation. WCTPT provides retirement security to over 600,000 families in all 50 states and nearly every congressional district. We rely on the WCTPT and the current multiemployer pension system as critical components to support the financial well-being of our families. The GROW Act would change the rules for multiemployer pension plans in a way that weakens the system as a whole and threatens our retirement security: • First, the bill would drain contributions from existing multiemployer plans to fund new composite plans—setting up both plans for failure and putting our retirement benefits at risk. • Second, the bill would permit draconian cuts to workers’ promised benefits and subject retirees to devastating cuts to their pensions. • Third, the GROW Act would make it easier for employers to withdraw from pension plans without paying their fair share of the plan’s liabilities. • Fourth, the bill undermines the solvency of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) because composite plans would be exempt from paying premiums, despite creating significant new liabilities for the PBGC due to the plan failures that would result from weakening plan funding. • Finally, under the GROW Act, workers lose the safety net of PBGC insurance coverage and face the prospect of total benefit loss in the event of a plan failure. We strongly urge you to oppose the GROW Act and to instead support efforts to sustain and strengthen the multiemployer pension system in a way that protects the retirement security of millions of American workers and retirees, including those of us who depend on a healthy WCTPT for our financial future.

When $100 can make or break you, parking tickets can set off a series of events that completely destroy your life. I've seen vulnerable people forced into even more extreme vulnerability by Oakland's exploitative parking enforcement system.

Lobbyists from Handy, an online gig economy platform, are trying to rush through a bill that would give them - and other online platforms - special treatment when it comes to how they treat their workers. Georgia lawmakers are only in session until March 29th, so we need to act now to stop this bill! A similar bill in Florida recently passed after less than 10 minutes of discussion by lawmakers , and in Tennessee it has passed both houses even though the Senator behind the called the gig economy the "gigabyte economy" in his testimony. Similar bills have already been introduced in 9 states by Handy, a company that just announced a partnership with Walmart, has the same lobbyist as Uber, and is facing five lawsuits for employee misclassification. The bill allows gig economy companies to treat workers as independent contractors, even if they don't receive the benefits of being an independent contractor, such as setting their own rates. Independent contractors should be just that -- independent. And if a worker doesn’t receive the benefits of being independent, they should receive the rights and protections of being an employee. Handy is pushing this legislation because it will save them from the lawsuits they are facing in five states for employee misclassification. Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan is on record saying that changing the laws "would definitely help with some of the litigation that's in play." Lawmakers should be looking for solutions to extend rights and benefits to gig workers, not trying to save tech companies from lawsuits. There is a long history of excluding domestic workers from rights and protections, which is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Workers' voices need to be heard in these debates, but instead lawmakers are only listening to those like Handy lobbyist and venture capitalist Bradley Tusk. Tusk recently confessed that Handy chose Georgia and other states to introduce these bills because they believe they can pass them faster here than in states with stronger labor protections. With Handy pushing these bills across 9 states, we have a chance to stop the legislation in Georgia, stand up for workers, and be an example for the rest of the country. Sign today to tell your state legislators that Handy shouldn’t get special treatment. Sources: http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/12/florida-lawmakers-approve-last-minute-change-on-behalf-of-powerful-lobbyist/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/594792952/in-push-for-convenience-walmart-wants-to-help-shoppers-assemble-furniture-mount- http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/14/news/economy/handy-gig-economy-workers/index.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-10/it-s-a-new-game-for-uber-drivers-if-new-york-passes-this-law

REPEAL or AMEND THE 2015 UPCOUNTRY WATER BILL Public Documents now reveal that in 2015, Gladys Baisa, then Chair of the Water Resources Committee, Corporation Counsel, and Director of Public Works David Goode, apparently pulled a classic Bait and Switch on the rest of the County Council and the people of Maui County. THE BAIT: The Upcountry Water Bill was said to aid residents on the Upcountry Water Meter Priority List eligible to get a second water meter, which would allow them to subdivide their property into two lots. All public notices of the bill specified its intent to exempt those 2 lot subdividers from having to perform costly infrastructure improvements related only to water connections for fire protection. SWITCH #1: After numerous committee hearings, at the Council’s first reading for the proposed bill, Public Works Director David Goode testified that in addition to fire protection, costly roadway improvements could also prevent residents from building a second home for their family. So, responding to Director Goode’s suggestion, language was added to the bill that significantly extended the exemption for 2 Lot Subdivisions beyond fire suppression, to include all roadway improvements as well. Contrary to our County Charter, no public notice has ever been made of that significant change to the bill’s scope and intent. THE BIGGER SWITCH: Certainly not the public, and perhaps not even the Council Members, were made aware that when Corporation Counsel’s Jennifer Oana (who has recently been nominated for a judgeship) added David Goode’s suggested roadway exemption, the language Oana added to the bill to amend the County Code's Title 18 Subdivision Ordinance was not specific to ‘Family” Residential Subdividers on the Upcountry Priority List. Instead, Oana’s significant language change is today allowing professional residential and commercial developers, island-wide, to inappropriately avoid performing roadway improvements along their two-lot subdivisions, effectively shifting their financial burdens into Maui's taxpayers. Public documents, received through Freedom of Information requests, reveal that by virtue of the “Upcountry Water Bill”, Alexander and Baldwin has been awarded a roadway improvement exemption for a 1200 acre parcel just south of Puunene and Dairy Rd. and that Snorkel Bob's got an exemption for a commercial development on Front St. in Lahaina and that the Blue Golf Course got an exemption for 60 acres in Wailea. That’s just not fair. So far Public Works has admitted to 20 exemptions awarded to approved 2 lot subdivisions, we don't know yet how many more have their preliminary subdivision approvals. In fact, the specifics of this "mistake” and the potential for this abuse was communicated in July of 2016 to Water Committee Chair Baisa, Council Chair White, Council Member Guzman, Council Member Hokama, Council Services’ David Raatz, Corporation Counsel’s Jennifer Oana and Mayor Arakawa. None of them has ever responded, nor has anyone initiated any action to correct and stop the growing harm that public documents now prove is being done to our community. The County Council must act immediately to repeal or amend the Upcountry Water Bill and stop this extraordinary exploitation of Maui County Taxpayers.

Changing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. We cannot afford to live if we make any less

This petition is to bring this situation to the attention of the US Senate by showing how many people this affects and/or feel strongly about ending this taxation. I'm a young woman who has been getting a menstrual cycle for the past five years and will continue to do so till I go through menopause. A menstrual occurs naturally for every woman, therefore, the products that aid in menstruation are a necessity, and in the United States a necessity product is not subject to tax. Stand up for all women and end this matter now

Article #3 reads: "To see if the Strafford School District shall vote to accept the fact-finder's recommendations dated October 27, 2017 for a collective bargaining agreement between the Strafford School Board and the Strafford Education Association, NEA-NH, and further vote to approve the cost items associated therewith which call for the following increases in salaries and benefits at current staffing levels: 2018-19: $73,500 2019-20: $82,000 and further to raise and appropriate the same of $73,500 for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increases in salaries and benefits over those of the appropriation at current staffing levels paid in the prior fiscal year." You can find a copy of the 2018 Strafford Annual School District Meeting Packet, which includes the fact-finder's report here: http://sau44.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-Strafford-Annual-School-District-Meeting-Packet.pdf

I got fired from a ROBLOX group and sign this petition if you think I should get my job back. The current Executive Director is very unfit and he talked very bad about the group. He has built many things for the group and they won't get rid of it. Sign this petition if Matthew should get his job back.

As you may have heard, Scott Buser was let go from his position at NARA NW by the board members after many years of service. We, the people whom Scott has influenced into becoming the strong, employable, respectful, clean and sober people we are or who he knows we can be, need to support him now. Please sign this to pass on to the members who feel he is not fit for this position. A note about/for Scott: Scott's clean date is 2/15/1992; that is 26 years of sobriety. Scott have been part of our journey since the very beginning and your impact on us is profound. We will carry your teaching tools with us forever. You have proven you're a strong, compassionate man who walked confidently amongst the broken and wounded, head held high, proudly displaying your scars. Not because you thought you were better, by any means, but because you are proof that a person could rise up from the wreckage of their past and overcome. We admire your honesty, integrity, caring heart, and your passion to help those of us who were once desperate and hopeless to a better way of life. (I can't finish without our admiration for your stubborn streak and standing up for what's right, despite the opposition). Prayers are sent Scott's way, and signatures would be appreciated. He is loved by millions!

Stop taxing social security income!

Our teachers deserve a bigger raise than what the WV Senate is offering. West Virginia teachers are one of the lowest paId in the nation. Our children's education is more important than politics.