Want our voice to be heard that high auto insurance in Michigan won't be tolerated anymore! Tired of High Insurance Rates Vs other states being as low as $30.00 per month.

The Legalization and regulation of marijuana will bring one of the nation's largest cash crops under the rule of law. This will create jobs,businesses and increase economic opportunities for all!

The Financial Crisis of 2008 has devastated millions of Americans. It has left millions with lackluster credit scores, bankruptcy, and homelessness. My family was severely affected by the crisis. My parents lost two of their businesses and almost lost their home. Albeit situations have improved, Republicans are looking to bring the U.S backwards. Stop them now.

To promote a 2nd coming of the WPA for our people to give this country a 21st century infrastructure, economy, & skill set needed to remain the nation that we've established.

Momentum is building to raise the minimum wage. Several states have already taken action — Connecticut has boosted it to $10.10 by 2017, the Maryland legislature just approved a similar measure, Minnesota lawmakers just reached a deal to hike it to $9.50. A few cities have been more ambitious — Washington, D.C. and its surrounding counties raised it to $11.50, Seattle is considering $15.00 Senate Democrats will soon introduce legislation raising it nationally to $10.10, from the current $7.25 an hour. All this is fine as far as it goes. But we need to be more ambitious. We should be raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour. Here are seven reasons why: 1. Had the minimum wage of 1968 simply stayed even with inflation, it would be more than $10 an hour today. But the typical worker is also about twice as productive as then. Some of those productivity gains should go to workers at the bottom. 2. $10.10 isn’t enough to lift all workers and their families out of poverty. Most low-wage workers aren’t young teenagers; they’re major breadwinners for their families, and many are women. And they and their families need a higher minimum. 3. For this reason, a $10.10 minimum would also still require the rest of us to pay Medicaid, food-stamps, and other programs necessary to get poor families out of poverty — thereby indirectly subsidizing employers who refuse to pay more. Bloomberg View describes McDonald’s and Walmart as “America’s biggest welfare queens” because their employees receive so much public assistance. (Some, like McDonalds, even advise their employees to use public programs because their pay is so low.) 4. A $15/hour minimum won’t result in major job losses because it would put money in the pockets of millions of low-wage workers who will spend it — thereby giving working families and the overall economy a boost, and creating jobs. (When I was Labor Secretary in 1996 and we raised the minimum wage, business predicted millions of job losses; in fact, we had more job gains over the next four years than in any comparable period in American history.) 5. A $15/hour minimum is unlikely to result in higher prices because most businesses directly affected by it are in intense competition for consumers, and will take the raise out of profits rather than raise their prices. But because the higher minimum will also attract more workers into the job market, employers will have more choice of whom to hire, and thereby have more reliable employees — resulting in lower turnover costs and higher productivity. 6. Since Republicans will push Democrats to go even lower than $10.10, it’s doubly important to be clear about what’s right in the first place. Democrats should be going for a higher minimum rather than listening to Republican demands for a smaller one. 7. At a time in our history when 95 percent of all economic gains are going to the top 1 percent, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour isn’t just smart economics and good politics. It’s also the morally right thing to do. Call your senators and members of Congress today to tell them $15 an hour is the least American workers deserve. You can reach them at 202-224-3121. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!

The House already passed the Wrong CHOICE Act. Now it heads to the Senate. After the big banks crashed the economy, people took action and won reforms to rein in the abuses of Wall Street. A big part of that was establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is the first federal financial watchdog whose entire job is making sure Wall Street can't get away with the tricks and traps that bleed millions out of our pockets. The Bureau has recovered $12 BILLION dollars in ill-gotten gains for over 27 million people ripped off by the predatory financial industry. But here's the thing. Republicans love the campaign donations they get from Wall Street bankers, payday lenders, and hedge fund managers. They are itching to destroy the CFPB and let Wall Street go wild. That's why they've introduced an Orwellian named "CHOICE Act" that would gut the CFPB and give Wall Street more power to gamble with our economy. We know full well this bill is the WRONG CHOICE for our families. It just passed the House. Now it heads to the Senate. Sign this petition to send a message to the US Senate: You work for us, not Wall Street. We need our government to do more to rein in predatory lenders and Wall Street bankers, not give them a free pass to crash the economy again.

The Trump campaign focus was "Make America Great Again", and he's failing. We need to tell Trump we aren't tolerating the silliness coming from his administration and will hold him accountable.

Corporate-backed special interests are pushing hard to pass the “Employee Rights Act.” This bill would be one of the single-greatest attack to workers and unions in decades. The bill is disguised as a bill to protect workers, but in fact, it does the opposite and gives more power and more wealth to CEOs and the corporations they represent. According to an EPI study, since the 1970s, as union membership has declined in our nation, so has the average pay for all workers. As union membership dropped, the richest 10% of Americans are now taking home 47% of all of the nation’s wealth, one of the highest levels ever. Unions help all workers, not just those who have one on their jobs. The ERA will gut unions and strip workers of their ability to voice opinions and make changes in their workplaces. Stop the so-called “Employee Rights Act” now! Source: http://www.epi.org/publication/as-union-membership-has-fallen-the-top-10-percent-have-been-getting-a-larger-share-of-income/

Trump wants to sell off our roads, bridges, and other public assets to foreign corporations and his Wall Street billionaire friends -- allowing them to put up new tolls and put our money in their pockets. And he's starting by trying to sell off America's air traffic control system! The Millions of Jobs Coalition is calling for a big public investment in roads, bridges, and 21st century infrastructure like clean energy, a modern power transmission system, and high-speed rail. This plan must be paid for by making the fossil fuel industry, Wall Street, giant corporations, and the rich pay their fair share.

I believe it is unfair that last year this was not put to a vote in the Massachusetts House and Senate. We learned too late that this was being cancelled. It is a proven fact that sales soar during this tax holiday benefiting a vast number of Massachusetts residents like sales associates and their families, small store owners and their employees, but most of all the families that need that relief. It is a win win and I hope you agree.

For decades, hedge fund and private equity billionaires, like Bruce Rauner, have used an unjustifiable provision in our federal laws to give themselves millions of dollars in tax cuts. In Illinois alone, closing this loophole could generate as much as $1.7 billion in revenue for the state. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Despite national agreement that action is needed, there has been little progress on closing this loophole. Until now. We have the chance to make Illinois the first state to stand up to special interest millionaires and billionaires by closing this loophole. Last week, SB1719 passed the Senate. And a vote in the House is imminent. There is no reason for Illinois to help billionaires find ways to hide their income. Especially not now, when we’re two years into a budget crisis and have all too many examples of the human cost of Governor Rauner’s failed leadership. This bill is the first in the nation to make it through any legislative chamber. If you want tax fairness, if you want hedge fund billionaires to pay their fair share, and if you want Illinois government to be able to afford core services without punishing the middle class, sign our petition to ask the House to support this bill and please pass along to your friends. Daniel

The bill is bad because: 1. Its intention, as stated in it own project report, is to have an unprecedented mandate to prevent an independent private childcare business from expelling a child. 2. It misses the important opportunity to provide the real service that a childcare needs when caring for a child with challenging behaviors, which is an aide to work one-on-one, or relieve the experienced teacher to work one-on-one, to teach the child the skills s/he needs to be successful. 3. A statewide and state-funded program already provides the exact same service that the bill is asking for more money to do. There is no waiting list for the existing program. To spend more money on this would be a shameful waste of money. The citizens of Maine need to trust the integrity of the process by which a bill gets passed into law. The people we elected to vote on these potential laws rely heavily on the committee that a bill gets assigned to, to do the work of listening to the pros and cons of the issues in order to fairly determine the likely impact the law would have on the citizens of Maine, BEFORE they are asked to place their VOTE. It is particularly important that the integrity of the Committee process ensures the voice of Mainers in getting a fair, honest, and balanced assessment when there are too many bills for legislators to be able to look into each one before they must cast a vote. That INTEGRITY and TRUST was BROKEN by the Education Committee on a childcare bill, LD1321 sponsored by Senator Cathy Breen when it passed into law WITHOUT consideration of any opposition! The bill was passed into law without either the House or Senate even casting their individual votes after legislators relied on the Education Committee's report saying there was "no opposition" to the bill, even though there WAS CLEARLY OPPOSITION posted on the State website. AND the bill was passed into law without either the House or Senate casting their individual votes, even though there was no committee consensus that it "ought to pass"! How did this happen? 1. Only supporters knew when the Public Hearing was held. Proper full 2-week notice of the Public Hearing on LD 1321 was not given to the public. 11 days prior to the hearing, notice was sent that a waiver to schedule the hearing without giving the public a full 2-week notice, was pending and needed confirmation. Then NO NOTICE was sent to the public of the date and time for the Public Hearing! As a result, ONLY supporters, including mostly lobbyists and people benefitting financially from the bill, were present to give testimony of support. 2. Without knowledge of the legislature or public, the Education Committee did not allow submission of written testimony beyond the end of the public comment time, even though this had previously not allowed. Since the public wasn't notified, they did not know when to show up for the public comment, so they weren't given the opportunity to be there and subsequently they were also prevented from submitting written testimony into the official record! Within 10 hours of close of Public Comment, there were many letters from childcare businesses opposing the bill, that were sent to the Education Committee members and secretary. 3. Against all odds, one professional childcare business owner got her opposition to LD1321 officially submitted to the record and it was posted on the State website. However, the Policy Analyst for the Education Committee STILL gave an OFFICIAL REPORT to the Committee that there was "NO OPPOSITION" at the start of the work session for the bill! The work session is intended to work out the details and solve differences in pros and cons, to create laws that make sense, are cost effective to taxpayers and citizens are more likely to comply with. The misleading statement that there was "no opposition" usurped the work session's legislative duty to explore the opposition's perspective on this bill before recommending that the bill becomes law. 4. The Education Committee failed to address concerns of the independent childcare business owners opposition to the bill during the work session, even though the Education Committee Secretary and many of the Committee Members acknowledged getting multiple letters of opposition, by responding through email to the senders of the opposition testimonies. The Education Committee ended the Work Session without a consensus, with 4 minority votes of "ought NOT to pass". 5. The full Senate and then the full House of Representatives unanimously passed LD1321 into law based on the recommendation of the Education Committee that it "ought to pass" and had NO OPPOSITION! Sign on to this petition if you want the following: Governor LePage, please VETO LD1321 because Maine citizens were prevented from their legal right to take part in the process of making this law. Senate President Michael Thibodeau, Majority Leader Garret Mason, Minority Leader Troy Jackson, please address the Senate, in your official capacity, to sustain the Governors VETO of LD1321 due to the fact that proper protocols were not followed by the Education Committee, thereby preventing Maine citizens from their legal right to take part in the process of making this law. Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, Majority Leader Erin Herbig, and Minority Leader Ellie Espling, please address the House, in your official capacity, to sustain the Governors VETO of LD1321 due to the fact that proper protocols were not followed by the Education Committee, thereby preventing Maine citizens from their legal right to take part in the process of making this law. Senate Chair of Government Oversight Committee Sen. Roger J Katz, and House Chair Rep. Anne-Marie Mastraccio: Investigate the Education Committee to determine the implication of gross negligence for the legal rights of the citizens of Maine to have fair access to the lawmaking process and to determine disciplinary action for individuals involved in obstructing th...