The carried interest tax loophole allows wealthy private equity managers to pay taxes at a lower rate than teachers, firefighters and nurses. What's even WORSE is that we don't even know how much tax money we lose each year to millionaire & billionaire fund managers taking advantage of this loophole. But the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has the power to fix this, and to "show us the (lost) money." We urge the IRS to require alternative asset managers (like private equity funds) to disclose the amount of carried interest they received in their annual tax filings. Want to learn more? See Americans for Financial Reform's letter to the IRS: bit.ly/showusthelostmoney

As an Army combat veteran rated at 10% disability, I was declined any dental care for years. Due to repeated infections and hospital stays, I am relying on a GoFundme that my mother put together so I can get dentures. Dental care is not a luxury; neglect will kill veterans. It almost killed me. Please help others, it's too late for me.

On May 4, the Illinois Human Services Committee passed HB 5736 with bi-partisan support. The bill extends the expiration date of Illinois' All Kids program from July 1, 2016 to October 1, 2019. Without this extension, 41,000 low-income children would be without health insurance in Illinois. The Governor has committed to sign the bill should it reach his desk! We need to ensure that the Senate approves the bill. Thank you! Learn more about HC3 by liking us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthycommunitiescookcounty/

Ivanka, daughter of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, is a vocal and public supporter of her father. Nordstrom is better than the hateful, misogynistic, bigoted rhetoric Mr. Trump spews.

From start to finish, nothing in this case was handled correctly, from securing the scene, preserving evidence, taking photos, taking X-rays, checking for gunshot residue, toxicology reports, or performing an autopsy. Nothing was done by the book, and a mother has been left grieving with no real answers to why her son died. When Calcasieu Parish Coroner Terry Welke was asked about protocol for suicide by gunshot, he stated: “If the bullet is inside of the body, we take X-rays, no matter what, where the gunshot wound of entrance is located to see if there is a bullet that is still in there or not. If the bullet is in there, I will do an autopsy to retrieve the bullet so it can be examined and compared to the weapon if there is one found at the scene,” said Welke. He says they also draw blood for possible toxicology tests, though they don’t necessarily run analyses if the cause of death is apparent. But he says sometimes, in a suicide, family members wish to pay the cost of testing. The coroner in Marcus' case never even saw the body! His body went straight from the site of death to the funeral home. The mattress he supposedly died on was taken and burned by his estranged wife and family the next day! Please join Royce Eckley ( Marcus's mother) and Together We Stand, an organization that advocates for victims of racism, discrimination and police brutality, in demanding his body be exhumed and an autopsy performed so a PROPER investigation can be done.

We are starting this petition because every candidate deserves equal treatment. No candidate for public office should be treated unfairly as it is a violation of the freedom of speech. Oppressing any candidate is violating every voter.

A developer wants to build 160 homes on the pristine 117 acres of Oswit Canyon. This canyon offers magnificent hiking for Palm Springs residents and visitors. It is also home to wildlife such as birds, rabbits, bobcats, coyotes, big horn sheep and more! We must save it!

The campaign needs to add local hires, proportional to the population and inversely proportional to historic voter turnout. Communities with low voting rates would receive additional organizers to mobilize. The political revolution is not just for those who participate in elections, but also those who feel disenfranchised and have given up on the electoral process. Paraphrasing Bernie GRASSROOTS STRATEGY: The campaign shifts strategy to a grassroots local focused approach, pulling money away from media buys and hiring up to 1000 local, minority preference, field organizers. COMMUNITY MURALS: Commissioned by the campaign, calling on the community to register to vote by May 23rd. Each of 50+ districts are awarded $50,000 for a community art project that encourages voter participation and civic engagement, that also serve as team building for the campaign and local organizers, both volunteer and paid. LOCAL HIRES: Campaign has set new goals for locally connected field organizers, hiring at least 50% of field organizers ethnic, religious and culturally representative of the communities they are organizing. We feel that this embodies Bernie’s messaging regarding community policing and is just as applicable here, when connecting with local communities, in winning votes and trust of the people. SPECIAL INTEREST RESOURCES: It is imperative that the campaign offices serve as resources for special interest groups and provide outreach efforts directed towards these groups. Resources such as voter registration outreach, canvassing, tabling, education materials, and campaign and community conversations must happen with all special interest groups including: First Americans / Native American African American Religious Minorities Ethnic Minorities Asians & Pacific Islanders Middle Eastern Latino Veterans Women’s Equality Unions LGBTQ Immigrants Thank you for your support of the Political Revolution let’s organize California for the Win! Please join us!!

The town recycling hauler has been fined for having plastic bags in our our curbside bins and due to the lightweight nature of the bags they blow around when animals dig in trash. These windblown items become dangerous for wildlife and create mosquito breeding vectors along with other litter. Very few people return bags to store recycling bins. Big corporate petro chemical corporations are spending millions to defeat any bag bans and the current two bills on the Boston State house floor are likely to die in committee, like the expanded bottle bill which took 20 years before environmentalist presented to voters in a state wide ballot.

Figures from ForProfitU.org report that only 13% of those who enrolled in the for-profit University of Phoenix had received their bachelor’s degree as of 2012. Phoenix’s parent company Apollo Group received over $800 million in federal Pell Grants in 2013 -- the most of any college in the country. Meanwhile, The University of Phoenix has been the subject of numerous federal investigations, as well as by Attorneys General in a number of states around the country, for its practices and the quality of educations enrollees receive. Lastly, the National Center for Education Statistics reported Phoenix gets $12,000 per student in tuition but spends $1,600 on actual instruction. Ellen, the student loan debt crisis is threatening the American Dream for tens of millions of student loan borrowers. The University of Phoenix deserves not your seal of approval, but condemnation and derision. If you don’t believe us, talk to people we know who have paid for Phoenix about their experience and the quality of instruction they received. This is why we ask you to please, drop your partnership with The University of Phoenix immediately.

The American Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against people with disabilities in their decision to hire them. Currently, at least 5 offices on campus are unable to hire people in wheelchairs, due to the inaccessibility of the office--employees would not even be able to enter Landis House, much less use the bathroom or enter offices. Numerous studies have found that people with disabilities experience much higher rates of sexual assault and domestic violence, and are also less likely to report due to lack of access to resources. Currently, Dickinson College community members in wheelchairs do not have the ability to seek support for assault or abuse through the Prevention Education and Advocacy Center, or support for discrimination through the Women's Center, Office of LGBTQ Services, or Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity. Please show Dickinson that it is a TOP PRIORITY to make Landis House wheelchair accessible. Also, according to this website, it should cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand to make a wheelchair ramp, something that it seems reasonable that Dickinson could find within their budget. http://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/environmental-safety/build-a-disability-ramp/

Now the Administration and the U.S. Trade Representative have reached a deal with 11 other nations on a new, secretly negotiated, massive so-called "free-trade" agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The public and the press did not have any access to the negotiations, and even Members of Congress had limited access. However, over 500 official corporate “trade advisors” representing Wal-Mart, Haliburton, Dow chemical and others have not only had access to, but also influenced, the negotiations. As the long fought for, recent release of the TPP text proves, the agreement will greatly empower corporations to challenge new consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy, and environmental regulations and have a devastating impact on CT small businesses and local farmers. The TPP would allow foreign corporations to bypass our domestic justice system to sue governments for domestic laws that they consider to undermine their “future profits” through the investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS. CT residents must reserve the right to determine our own consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy, and environmental regulations without the threat of our governments being sued by foreign corporations. Do not surrender our rights to trans-national corporations. Despite massive popular opposition to the TPP (despite media silence) on the part of citizens of all party nations, the Obama administration is trying to bring the TPP up for a vote in Congress within months under the anti-democratic Fast Track procedure. Fast Track legislation, which limits Congressional debate on trade agreements and only allows an up-or-down vote with no amendments, was passed in June 2015 despite no votes from nearly all of the Democratic Congressional Delegation with the notable exception of Jim Himes (4th district). CT residents, like all Americans, are in the fight of our lives to urge Congress to oppose the TPP. We also urge members of the CT Legislative Assembly as well as city and town councils to speak out against the TPP.