Last year, I chose to live on a $30 food budget for a week -- the same amount that millions of Americans rely on through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps. But a few out-of-touch lawmakers are working to institute stringent work requirements, mandate drug testing, and halt access to people who receive other assistance. The impact of these changes will be more people struggling to survive and more children sinking into a poverty that drags our whole nation down. Join me and tell Members of Congress: abandon cruel changes to food stamps until you've lived on $30 a week. Choose love instead of judgment.

This is important because there are some children whose grandparents are their sole caretakers. It makes it really hard when children are left with grandparents to raise, and take care of emotionally/physically and financially, but the biological parent can just come and rip them away at any time. This is traumatic to the children, and it's hard on the grandparents as well. If we have the right to take these kids to the doctor, and administer medications, buy clothing and food and diapers and take them to school, etc etc, then we should be able to have rights. It's really sad when you are the only "parent" a child knows, and then the biological parent comes and takes the child from you, and is completely unfit, and the child's life and health is endangered, and we are told "I'm sorry, grandparent's have no rights in Kentucky" and we can't do anything to help them! Grandparents need and deserve rights in Kentucky!!!

The CT Department of Children and Families needs to take a stand to preserve families as they are and support parents in their choices to obtain special education support services and alternative therapies that their children need to address emotional, social behavioral challenges. Parents should not have to waive their rights to decide on providers or treatments for their children or for themselves in order to have the school and department of children and families put public dollars to work with services in place. Parents have a right to choice of providers and programming in or out of state. The practice of committing children to state custody on neglect petitions in these situations in order to avoid the cost of providing relevant and timely services for children in the care of their parents must stop.

Financial cuts to Head Start, education, the Arts, and infrastructure is hurting the economy, not to mention those most vunerable.

In Mississippi our governor is trying to take away the Medicaid. Over 90% of our elders are on either Medicaid or Medicare, along with over 95% of babies. If they are allowed to take this from the people then who will provide medical care? We as people struggle to pay bills,taxes,buy food,and etc. Going to the hospital and buying medicine these days are extremely pricey and the people just don't have the money to cover this! I feel that this is a part of the "Just Let Them Die" Plan. Please sign the petition so our babies and elderly can continue to receive the health care they need... Thank You in advance, Dorothy Jackson

Proposed demolition of a hotel built and maintained since the 1770's. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but not protected. Owner wants to convert land into hotel, bank; close to shopping malls and Dorney Park.

Remove the cap on taxing Social Security. In this era of record profits, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, this is the moral thing to do. This is the only way to make the program work.

The petition is in support of funding to improve safety for pedestrians, bicycles, wheelchairs, and transit riders in Gainesville, FL. Several specific projects have been proposed such as mid-block crossings for transit riders, ADA compliant access ramps, new sidewalks, and implementation of innovative bicycle facilities such as bike boulevards, access ramps for cyclists at the traffic circles on SW 2nd Ave. and bike boxes, The total budget is $5 million over five years that will come out of the City of Gainesville budget.

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