Big news: Senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that restores critical Glass-Steagall protections that protect the American economy -- and American jobs -- from excessive risk-taking by Wall Street bankers. As Senator Warren says, "The biggest banks are collectively much larger than they were before the crisis, and they continue to engage in dangerous practices that could once again crash our economy. The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will rebuild the wall between commercial and investment banking and make our financial system more stable and secure." It's time to stop big Wall Street bankers from gambling ordinary Americans' life savings on risky investments, pocketing huge profits, then demanding taxpayer bailouts when they go wrong.

Wall Street hedge fund managers aren't just a driving force behind rising inequality in America -- they have their own tricky loophole that shifts billions in taxes to people who make much less. President Obama has called on Congress to close the "carried interest loophole" that taxes hedge fund managers' profits at half the regular rate. As Bernie Sanders explains, "This can result in millionaires and even billionaires who manage these funds paying lower effective tax rates than many middle-class families." Let's stop tricky Wall Street accounting and force these traders to pay their fair share. Will you sign the petition?

It is past time to raise the Pennsylvania minimum wage. 29 states, including every state surrounding Pennsylvania, have raised their minimum wages while our Legislature will not even vote on this issue. A recent poll by Mercyhurst University, earlier this year, found that 66% of Pennsylvanians support a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour. Over 1.2 million PA workers will get a raise if such an increase were enacted and these funds would go right back into our local economies. Half of those workers are employed full time and 84% are over 20 years of age. A quarter of them are raising children on poverty wages. Legislation to raise the minimum wage has been sitting in the house and Senate Labor and Industry Committees since January. The will of our citizens and the needs of Pennsylvania’s low wage workers require that legislation to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 be moved onto the floor immediately. Please tell Labor and Industry Committee Chairs Senator Lisa Baker and Rep. Mauree Gingrich "We strongly urge that you ensure that minimum wage legislation be reported out of your committee immediately. We urge you to support a $10.10 minimum wage, including a cost of living index and one that includes tipped workers, as well. We also urge you to support elimination of local pre-emption to let our localities decide on minimum wage for their citizens."

Matthew Straton went missing Oct 28, 2013. All efforts by family,friends and the local authorities were used in efforts to find Matt. On Jan. 15, 2014, Matt's body was found in a shallow grave covered up with lawn furniture and garbage in the backyard of William Lewek, a local psychiatrist who specialized in alcohol/ drug dependence. Lewek admitted to buying and using drugs with Matt. He admitted that Matt died in his presence and instead of calling 911, he dragged his body down 3 flights of stairs and hid his body. Because of the nature and and amount of time Matt's body was hidden, all evidence was compromised. Lewek was charged with Tampering with evidence, which in New York state is only a 1 1/3-4 year sentence. Through the whole ordeal Lewek never showed any remorse for his actions, only self preservation and contempt for the law. He was even arrested again, this time for DUI. May 1, 2015 Lewek was sentenced and he is already up for parole. This is unacceptable. Please help by signing and sharing this petition in hopes he will be denied early release. From all Matthew's family, loved ones, and the community in which he lived, we thank you, from the bottom of our heart. JUSTICE FOR MATT.

Planned Parenthood is a lifeline for millions of women, providing cancer screenings, contraception, and basic preventive health care to women across the country. Access to these basic necessities is already limited, at best, and cutting off Planned Parenthood would make their acquisition all but impossible for many women.

WE DON`T LIKE SWEDEN TO TURN INTO ANTI-DEMOCRATIC & NAZISTATE AGAIN AND SINCE SWEDEN DO THIS TOGETHER WITH HITLER !!! THIS ARE GOING ON NOW AND TODAY WHITH ( S - SOCIALDEMOCRATS ) IN MAIN FRONT, AND FULLY SUPPORT OF IS & TERRORISTS IN SWEDEN, AND SWEDENS STATE MEDIA AS SVT & SR WHO ALSO FULLY SUPPORT THIS TERRORISTS IN SWEDEN !!!!!

On August 27, law enforcement officials across Northern California began arresting more than 30 bail bondsmen from seven different bail bond companies on charges that they illegally rewarded jail inmates with money for providing information about individuals newly entering the jails. The alleged corruption illustrates an important danger of the cash bail system, in which access to money—rather than risk—determines who stays in jail pretrial. No one should ever be held in jail simply because they are too poor to put up an arbitrary amount set by the courts. Jail should be reserved for people who pose a danger to our communities, or are a flight risk. No one should be able to prey on and exploit defendants simply because they are poor. Across America, jurisdictions are moving toward detention decisions based on risk, rather than money. More than 75 percent of voters support risk-based detention and believe it works. Governor Brown: You know California’s bail system is broken, and you have not yet taken action to fix it. End cash bail. -Cherise Fanno Burdeen of the Pretrial Justice Institute

Server's everywhere should be concerned as their employer may be calculating their tip share including local taxes. Servers pay tip share simply because restaurant owners and corporations do not want to have to pay labor, so they make the servers pay it. This is why it should be illegal to include tax when calculating tip share.

To prevent big city-style development from further encroaching on the Western Addition.

Planned Parenthood is about HEALTH and unwanted pregnancy PREVENTION. It helped me when I was young and uninsured, and today I have my health and a wonderful wanted family because of it.

I was alive through WW11, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia, Grenada, Panama, Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan - none of which achieved peace. Isn't it time we tried Peace? Stupidity is the act of repeating failed policies and expecting better results.

My wife and I and many of our friends have to work multiple jobs upwards of 60 hours a week just to get the bills paid--and we can't afford groceries afterwards. We have to get our groceries from church food drives. We don't have kids so we can't get food stamps. Your citizens shouldn't work 60 hours a week to starve. Raise the ban on minimum wage increase.