• Increase Railroad Infrastructure
    I travel Routes 287 and 80 to get to work each day. I would love to be able to take a train to get to work. As of now, I would have to travel all the way to NYC and change trains or switch to buses several times, tripling my commute. I think others who may travel different highways would like this option, but I don't hear anyone talking about it, so I'm starting my own petition.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Linda Milkes
  • Build a memorial field at Trumbull and Michigan
    The site of Tigers Stadium should be transformed into a communal space that reflects its roots as a historic baseball field.
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    Created by Mark Crain
  • Computerizing VBA paper Files
    I would like for congress or some other authoritative body to consider a plan that uses current web technology to computerize the VBA paper files.
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    Created by Robert Lindauer
  • Protection of Food Stamps for the Poorest
    While SNAP (ie Food Stamp) benefits are currently protected for Americans who start to receive Social Security retirement or disability checks, this only applies if the SNAP applicant already has some income to report...and people who are totally without an income but dependent on food stamps routinely get their benefits slashed, when they are finally awarded SS help. This is insane, it penalizes the poorest of our elderly & disabled. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are effected..why? Michelle Obama, one of America's strongest 'feed the poor' advocates is uniquely situated to influence the Department of Agriculture's policy that abuses Americans for being poor, let her know what you think.
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    Created by Darrel armstrong
  • Include a Director of Veterans Affairs Office in 2014 City Budget
    Whereas, on December 12, 2007, Senate Bill 915, PN 1436 was signed into law as Act 66 of 2007. The goals of the (Act 66) legislation are to enhance service delivery to veterans, increase the number of Pennsylvania veteran claims for service-related disability or pensions filed with the VA, develop methods to increase rates of recovery paid by the VA to Pennsylvania veterans, expand training opportunities for designated Veteran Service Officers, and increase either the number or percentage of Philadelphia veterans enrolled in the VA health care system, and Whereas, there are approximately 88,855 U.S. Armed Forces Veterans living in the County/City of Philadelphia, and Whereas, there is no Director of Veterans Office in the County/City of Philadelphia, and Whereas, on September 11, 2012, the Philadelphia City Council's Committee on Public Safety and Committee on Housing Neighborhood Development and the Homeless held joint hearings on the City’s preparedness for the influx of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and Whereas, Pointman Soldiers Heart Ministry, declared a “ State of Emergency” for veterans in Philadelphia during the 911 hearing because there is no Director of Veterans Affairs Office, and Therefore, this petition is to demands Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Council President, Darrell L Clarke to establish a Director of Veterans Affairs Office in the County/City of Philadelphia, forthwith, to increase rates of recovery paid by the VA to Pennsylvania veterans, expand training opportunities for designated Veteran Service Officers, and increase either the number or percentage of Philadelphia veterans and spouses receiving their earned benefits and preferences.
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    Created by Ari Sesu Merretazon. M.S.CED
  • Repealing WEP and GPO
    It is unfair to people who have paid into social security, and then are penalized while others aren't. Please vote for H.B. 1795
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    Created by Audra Miller
  • Permanent Housing for Disabled (TBI)
    Recreational Marijuana tax revenues (HB1318) should include $10 million appropriation to create permanent protective therapeutic housing for people disabled by traumatic brain injuries by recycling TOWERS building of CU Med Hospital at Ninth and Colo. Blvd., Denver, then VA hospital at 1055 Clermont, and other empty buildings like Rosedale Elementary, Denver, and Baker Elementary, Wheat Ridge.
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    Created by Paula Rhoads Hook
  • Senior Citizens Fight Back .org
    Senior Citizens are being forced to live on the street because of their non-violent backgrounds records. The HUD agents are denying senior citizens to be enrolled into the Federal Government senior cotozens low income housing program because of their non-violent records that are 10,20,30,40,50, years old.
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    Created by Chester Lee Marks
  • Save Our Post Office North Carolina
    Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in North Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.
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    Created by Jerry Stidman
  • Save Our Post Office South Carolina
    Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in South Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.
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    Created by Jerry Stidman
  • Windfall elimination provision must be repealed .
    Public workers , teachers anyone collecting a state pension having prior work in a job where social security was collected is being unfairly discriminated against by the federal government. Since 1985 when the government enacted this rule for social security receipients millions of people have had their social security payment eliminated or drastically reduced. We are asking congress to eliminate the WEP and allow those who have earned a social security benefit to collect what they have earned.
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    Created by Brad
  • Make Social security a non-negotiable earned benefit.
    The Congress keeps abusing the funds and disrespecting the retired people that made the fund solvent. .Fi.c.a.. is a payroll tax paid in equal parts by the employee and employer for every hour worked. It is not an entitlement it's a non-negotiable earned benefit.
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    Created by Charles Lucas