Deficit reduction should not come at the expense of low-income families with children, our seniors and the disabled, or our veterans. Without housing stability, many will remain homeless, find it difficult to maintain a job or find one, let alone provide stability and schooling for their children. I understand this message at gut level. When I was ten, my father, suffering from mental problems and not able to find work, left the family. Welfare programs provided a bridge for my mother, my three siblings and me until she could find a job to support us. Three of us children went on to earn college degrees.

STOP TRAGIC DISCRIMINATION OF OLD AGE AND CHILDHOOD IN FLORIDA AND OTHERS STATES OF THE USA!

Bill 20-9, would allow civilian, single-role emergency medical service providers to participate in the Police Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement Program and establish a District of Columbia Advisory Paramedic Review Board. Currently , Single role Paramedics and EMT's handle about 85 percent of the entire departments work load. Since we weren't able to get the city to support a equal retirement. We would like for them to support us paying into a equal retirement system. Not a 401 A plan. This Bill also would allow a Paramedic review board. This is the equivalent to being judged by a jury of your peers verses a judge only. The current system takes primarily paramedics off the street for very minimal infractions for months at a time. The judge being the Medical director ( David Miramontes ) chooses who he wishes to site while others get a pass. This would also remove the division that he is causing in a already low moral Agency Please support us. We just want whats Fair. Thank you.

Thursday, July 11th, the US House of Representatives held a closed vote for a Farm Bill (H.R. 2642) that, for the first time in half a decade, excluded the Nutrition Title which includes funding for food banks, senior feeding programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The bill passed, with only Republican members voting for it. The Farm Bill could have and should have been an opportunity for us to strengthen our response to hunger in our country. Instead, the House passed a Farm Bill without a Nutrition Title, without a single hearing on hunger in fact, bypassing our ability to address the shameful reality that one in six, and one in five children, are going hungry right here in America. The following organizations urge your signature of this petition. Alameda County Community Food Banks California Association of Food Banks California Food Policy Advocates California Hunger Action Coalition California Latinas for Reproductive Justice California Partnership Children’s Defense Fund - California Coalition of Welfare Rights Organizations Food Bank for Monterey County Greenlining Institute Hunger Action Los Angeles JERICHO: A Voice for Justice Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Los Angeles Community Action Network Sacramento Hunger Coalition Saint Anthony Foundation San Diego Hunger Coalition Western Center on Law and Poverty Western Regional Advocacy Project Women Organizing Resources, Knowledge & Services (WORKS) For a copy of our full statement, go to: http://tinyurl.com/ResponseToHouseFarmBill

Our Community Access Television facility, that has offered training to citizens to create programming since the 1970's, is threatened to close because of loss of funding. This vital media link in our geographically challenged county where citizens can view archived programs on the internet and get training making TV media, might soon come to an end. Keeping this public media service operating to allow citizens to view local events and meetings should be a top priority of government agencies providing funding.

Employees should be allowed to designate a beneficiary for their Social Security earnings that are deducted from their wages. The money that was earned during their employment and deducted from their wages should be given to a beneficiary upon their death. If there is no beneficiary, then the money should be left in the Social Security Funds.

Help celebrate longer, healthier lives and basic health security by asking your Representative to cosponsor H.R. 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare For All Act which would establish a not-for-profit healthcare program. Lead sponsor Rep. John Conyers.

Delrod Spearman, was a son, a brother and a best friend to many

You think it's hard raising a toddler? Try doing it without a home! My name is Danielle Stelluto, and I am a home care worker from the Bronx, New York City who is raising two children in a shelter because I cannot find housing I can afford. Why should you care? Because I am one of 11 million residents who is still in search of stable, affordable housing. Are you searching too? While we are searching for a basic living situation, the Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA), under Acting Director Ed DeMarco, has illegally withheld hundreds of millions of dollars from low-income affordable housing. Just in 2012 alone, the FHFA and DeMarco withheld more than $382 million from affordable housing, enough for tens of thousands of families to find and secure housing they can afford. Today I am urging President Obama to immediately work to ensure this funding for affordable housing, either with current Acting Director Ed DeMarco or Nominee Mel Watt. The FHFA has been violating a 2008 law that mandates that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, overseen by FHFA, contribute a portion of their revenue each year to the National Housing Trust Fund- a fund dedicated to creating housing for extremely low-income families. Fannie Mae is posting record profits, $17.2 billion for 2012 alone, but not a cent of those funds has gone to the National Housing Trust Fund. If fully funded, the affordable housing trust would create millions of low-income affordable rental homes for US residents in need. With over 11 million families and seniors in need of affordable homes right now, we cannot afford to wait any longer. The FHFA and DeMarco must stop breaking the law! I ,Danielle Stelluto, a member of the Right to the City Alliance, the National Low Income Housing Coalition and my fellow plaintiffs Angela Samuels and Rossana Torres of Miami have joined forces to file a lawsuit against the FHFA and Acting Director DeMarco to get them to contribute, as legally required, to the National Housing Trust Fund. Think veterans, seniors, and single moms like me deserve an affordable home? Well, Sign on to join us!

Imperial Valley neighborhood & FM969 Woodland Hills HOA residents are unprepared to support Austin's homeless right byside our homes. We have no jobs, bus lines, grocers, libraries, M.D. clinics, pubs, and Sheriff deputies don't protect our chilren. We can't fund downtown Austin needs nor bare demands that hurt families, property values and credit ratings. It's forced FOR SALE signs to go up. Texas Penal Code 39.03 (a)(2) defines this as oppression.

The problem of hunger in this country is too important to be left to volunteer organizations. All US citizens deserve to partake of a healthy diet and the US government should make sure this happens.

It is time for California to repeal its ban on federal food stamps for people with a prior drug-related felony conviction. This policy leaves low-income Californians who have served their time hungry and desperate and communities less safe.