There are currently more children being raised by grandparents than are in foster care right now. The number of parenting grandparents doubled in 2010 from 2000 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. They need financial, legal and health care support to meet their grandchildren's many, complex needs.

why women must give up sss benefits if they are in their 60ies or 70ies and have worked all that time to earn them

A bill should be introduced to make national voting day a national holiday thereby creating a situation where more people would have the chance to vote without their work being an obstacle. A greater turn out in voters would be more representative of what the people want. There is nothing as important in a democracy as the right to vote.

Greater Cleveland United Way contributed $25,000 to the Cleveland School Levy. United Way purposely failed to reveal that several of their Board of Directors is on the Board of the Cleveland Levy. They have a private interest. This is a direct conflict of interest. United Way is a nonprofit organization - “public benefit” corporations; the purpose of its existence is to benefit the public as opposed to the private interests of board members, directors, and staff or even of individual clients.

Would like fact checking to take place at president and vice presidential debates.

The claim Al Qaeda gave up Osama bin Laden to help President Obama get re-elected is false and Rush Limbaugh needs to apologize.

a petition to take the social security out of the general fund and into a seperate dept with its own budget. call the social security exactly what it is. an old age pension

This petition is in reference to safety concerns at Magruder Park in Hyattsville, MD, a park where my two children often play.

We, the citizens of NJ must set an example for our fellow Americans....Urge our Politicians to stand up in favor of Back Up Paper trails in our voting machines. Machines have been known to "break-down" but a paper trail does not! Who will stand with me and demand paper trails?

The Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision has created a "buy the election" situation across the country. We need to reverse this decision by legislation in Connecticut.

Shame on the General Assembly and the courts for agreeing to the blatantly biased redistricting of Missouri. Jackson county has had a teardrop shape carved out of it to go into the rural 6th district, meanwhile the rest of Jackson county is in the 5th district with Ray, Lafayette and Saline counties. Urban and rural populations with dissimilar interests. Over in St. Louis, the districts with 2 incumbent Democrats were merged into one, so that will make for one less Democrat in Congress. Clearly the plan in redistricting was not to serve Missourians, but to decrease the number of Democrats who can win their district and serve in the US Congress. This should never have been approved. It is clearly politically motivated and politically drawn to serve one party. It's too late for the 2012 election, but not too late to say "Shame on the Missouri General Assembly."

The State of Kentucky needs to either stop using electronic voting machines or immediately adapt them to a process that generates a paper record of each vote when the vote is cast. There may not be a problem with the machines at this time, but if a problem does occur, there needs to be a more accountable method for verifying which ballots were cast. By not having a paper record of votes cast, in a case of recount or trouble with the machines, the vote may become subject to question.