Even if you don’t eat Big Macs, you STILL pay for them. That’s because fast food giants like McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Burger King depend on taxpayers like you to subsidize the low wages they pay their workers -- to the tune of $7 billion a year - when their workers are forced to rely on programs like food stamps and Medicaid. It’s SO not right - and it’s time for the fast food giants to get their hands out of our pockets. In New York state alone, taxpayers spend $700 million annually to subsidize low pay at food companies -- the most of any state in the nation. We can fix it. This summer. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just launched a wage board with the power to raise wages for the 180,000 fast-food workers in the state. And this action would trigger a wave of raises for low-wage workers across the country. We need to make sure they don’t opt for a half measure and instead raise wages to where they need to be: $15 an hour. Time is running out - we need every signature collected by the big hearing in New York City on June 15. Sign now.

If minimum wage had simply kept pace with worker productivity since 1968, it would be over $15 today. Instead, CEOs have gotten richer and richer, while the working class struggles to get by. $15 is winnable -- but only if we speak up. A special wage board will decide by the end of June the new rate for fast-food pay in New York. If New York raises fast-food pay to $15, it will boost paychecks for 180,000 New Yorkers -- most adults, many supporting families. They deserve to be able to pay their rent and feed their families. And this action would trigger a wave of raises for low-wage workers across the country. Tell the wage board: It’s time for $15.

New York may raise the minimum wage this summer for fast-food workers to $15. Raising the minimum to $15 an hour would boost paychecks for 180,000 New Yorkers -- most of whom are adults, many supporting families -- and would trigger a wave of raises for low-wage workers across the country. If minimum wage had simply kept pace with worker productivity since 1968, it would be over $20 today. Tell the wage board you support this fix.

I am a teacher. It is NOT the students' fault if their parents do not send their lunch money. I want students to go to school without worry about food. If the parents forget to send money, the parents need to get a cheese sandwich for lunch.

Americans who work full time should not have to rely on the government for food stamps and housing assistance. And taxpayers should not have to subsidize bottom-basement wages. But that’s exactly what’s happening with our absurdly low $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage. Momentum is building for the Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $12, index it to keep pace with the median wage, and phase out the subminimum “tipped” wage. States and cities across the country have proven that raising the minimum wage doesn’t lead to job losses. In fact, it does just the opposite. It breathes new life into the local economy as workers have more money to spend at local stores and on local services. That creates jobs and economic activity. It’s simply wrong that millions of American are working full time yet still live below the poverty line. It’s bad for the country and it’s bad for the economy. But we can do something about it!

Unless workers feel safe to report practices that put themselves, the environment and surrounding communities at undue risk, or subjects taxpayers to unnecessary expenditures and costs, there can be no meaningful accountability. This petition will require that officials stop ignoring the whistleblower retribution that is standard practice at the Los Alamos lab. Reference the following web links for added perspective: https://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/press-release-call-for-congressional-investigation-of-cover-up-at-los-alamos-national-laboratory/ http://ksfrnews.libsyn.com/may-5-lanl-whistleblower-says-lack-of-accountability-to-blame-for-accidents

I am a blind American who wants to maintain my independence so I am starting this petition in order to promote safety for blind citizens as they cross the street

We are appealing to Bayer to change their contraceptive name to one that is not personally insulting to many women and girls, who are now subjected to slander and ridicule regarding being the moniker of birth control, to a name that that does not hold international cultural value as a personal name.

This project scheduled for start in November 2015 has been postponed in past. Increased congestion in our community requires this bridge replacement for that concern and to increase safety and mobility to keep our community a desirable , livable community.

1.) CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Simply stated, Mr. Koch has a conflict of interests with WGBH. While Mr. Koch goes about his business - and believe me, everything Mr. Koch does is in the best interests of Mr. Koch and his predominantly carbon-negative fossil fuel companies which, taken individually or together, represent the worst of American industry and American climate change deniers. 2.) ULTIMATE POLLUTER AND CLIMATE-CHANGE DENIER: Mr. Koch and his predominantly carbon-negative fossil fuel companies which, taken individually or together, represent the worst of American industry and American climate change deniers. 3a.) WHAT'S THE DOUGH-BOY AFRAID OF, ANYWAY...? - HIDING BEHIND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE "PRIVACY" - MORBID PRIVACY - AND A PUBLIC RELATIONS MASQUERADE - KOCH'S "GOOD TWIN": Mr. Koch's public relations schema has at least two parts: one is to be seen as a benevolent philanthropist, giving his largesse (Mr. Koch is a billionaire many times over) to: the arts, medical and biological research in addition to widely viewed, among others, public television programs like NOVA. Mr. Koch makes sure that the price of his giving is putting his name on everything that might be construed as a public good, from funding part of NOVA, to funding medical and biological research at MIT with his name on the door - Mr. Koch is an MIT alumnus. 3b.) WHAT'S THE DOUGH-BOY AFRAID OF, ANYWAY...? - HIDING BEHIND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE "PRIVACY" - MORBID PRIVACY - AND A PUBLIC RELATIONS MASQUERADE - KOCH'S "EVIL TWIN": At the same time as the "good" Mr. Koch is highly visible promoting himself as the universe's gift to the arts, medical and biological research and other worthy causes, the "bad" Mr. Koch is conspiring, in not-so-conspicuous privacy and secured privacy with those, in addition to himself, who have - and will continue - to buy and pay for the government that is good for them, the 01%'ers. That is, Mr. Koch and his crony capitalists, banksters (remember everything that the banksters have given us since 2008 - none of it good?) believe that they should be free to go about their business, free to pollute our waterways, the very air that we breathe, the drinking water, in addition to the air that we breathe, that is the very stuff of live for humankind. 4.) KOCH ON THE WGBH BOARD IS LIKE HAVING THE FOX IN CHARGE OF THE HENHOUSE: Mr. Koch's presence on WGBH's Board of Trustees is a matter of letting the fox into the hen house and an obscenity. Mr. Koch gets mega-publicity, and is featured vocally and prominently - with his name on just about everything) when it suits his interests to promote his agenda to a public that, by design, knows very little about the organizations to which Mr. Koch belongs, the politicians, other plutocrats and members of governments at all levels - municipal, county, state and Federal - in support of the political agendas that he supports as the seemingly "good" David H. Koch. The "good" David H. Koch reaps the benefits of being perceived as a white-knight phlianthropist. In the meantime, the "bad" David H. Koch - aka Dark Matter and Dark Energy - is meeting in the dak, out of the light of day and the sunlight that, otherwise, would shine a light on the people that he meets with, in utmost privacy, the agendas and discussions that they have, the agendas that they promote. 5.) ELITE, "FATHER-KNOWS-BEST," CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP AND ISSUES OF ELITE MEDIA CONTROL INDOCTRINATION AND PROPAGANDA: WGBH has seen fit to ignore the considered opinions of over 300,000 petitioners in support of ousting Mr. David H. Koch from WGBHS Board of Trustees. The WGBH Board of Trustees, themselves financial, education and other elites in the Boston community think that they can just blow off the views of their "constituents" and viewers. Let's show them just how wrong they are - these hedge-fund billionaires and millionaires, these hedge fund managers, owners of capital management companies, presidents of universities, wealthy people who just KNOW what's good for all the rest of us and are gonna darned tootin' keep doing what they darned tootin' want to do, the public be damned. Let's, right here, right now, boycott WGBH, unfortunate as that feels like, to many of us, because these financial, hedge fund, capital and stock market managers, the wealthy and presidents of institutions of higher educatiion, "Just don't get it." They think that they are the high and mighty, that Mr. Koch is one of them, so we're talking about a matter of corporate governance here, as well. And they think they can do what they damned well please, with their PRIVATE public radio and television stations. Well, I don't know about you, but I think it's high time that we disabused them of that notion. I think it's time we got back to putting the "Public" back in public radio and television. Boycotting Mr. Koch and all of his products, businesses, affiliates, joint venture partners, suppliers as well as not contributing to WGBH, not watching their programs (there are alternatives, WBUR for radio and others), not patronizing their advertisers (since when did public radio and television have "advertisers," fer cryin' out loud) and, in general, not doing business with anyone, anything, any corporation (which, as J. Willard ("the Mittster) Romney pointed out, in his view, are really people, my friends [he said...] will begin to get their attention. Will this happen overnight and/or quickly? No, because these elites are stubborn and are convinced that they know what's good for you and I and they're not about to change , just because the like of you and I demand that they do. No, I don't expect change overnight. There's going to be much, much more to come in the days, weeks and months ahead. No, change will not come overnight because these folks are stubborn and they "know" they're right and they know what's good for you and I. But... It's a little bit like the farmer with his wagon and mule. One day,...

Compassion for hungry children should not be penalized; it should be praised. While Ms. Curry acknowledges that her actions were against school policy, I sincerely feel that the policy needs to be changed to allow students in need the basic human right to not go hungry. A hungry child cannot focus on their studies and causes them to sway away from being attentive in class. Tell the Cherry Creek School District to reinstate Della Curry and change their policy so no school children go hungry.

Orcas and dolphins suffer in captivity. They are sentient, highly intelligent marine mammals that live in family groups, and do not belong living in a chlorine-laden, confined tank their entire lives. SeaWorld claims they love their orcas and dolphins, but 44 orcas have died at SeaWorld. They currently confine 23 orcas in their facilities, and these orcas have been separated from their mothers. In the wild, orcas seldom leave their mother's side, even when fully grown. SeaWorld blatantly lies in it's newest TV ads, claiming that their orcas live the same lifespan as they do in the wild, but over 90% of their orcas have not survived beyond 25 years! In the wild, a female orca can live up to 80 to 90 years. All SeaWorld cares about are their profits - if they truly cared about the orcas and dolphins, they would NOT keep them in captivity in the first place! SeaWorld should NOT be granted a permit to build a larger tank - they need to stop imprisoning orcas, and dolphins!