Illinois minimum wage is $8.25 an hour and the tip wage is $4.95 an hour. ALL Illinois workers deserve an economy that works for everyone. A $12.95 an hour minimum wage for ALL workers would began that process. Join me in telling our legislature and our governor to raise the minimum wage to $12.95 an hour.

Currently, a payor can remit on the first of one month & the last day of the next & be within the letter of the law, even though he has effectively skipped a month. Rents, mortgages, credit cards and other billers don't allow us to pay that way, so why does the state?

Ever since his State of the Union address this year, President Obama has been calling on Congress to pass a federal minimum wage increase. He even signed an Executive Order, requiring federal contractors to boost their minimum wage to $10.10. But with the Tea Party in control in Congress, there's little chance of a vote for a federal minimum wage increase. That's why the people need to stand together and demand this of Colorado.

SOME OF OUR CHILDREN DID NOT GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL THEREFORE IT IS TOUGH FOR THEM TO GET HIGH PAYING JOBS, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP OUR CHILDREN IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN, RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE WOULD HELP MANY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN TO LIVE A BETTER LIFE

I have been a supporter of health care reform and worked to make sure that the Affordable Health Care Act or Obamacare was passed. One of the many benefits for society assured that no one would loose their homes due to health care expenses. My husband and I (age 60 and 63) have been newly enrolled in Medi-Cal. We qualify for this program due to the changes in income and asset eligibility. We own a small family daycare home which provides low cost preschool and childcare in Auburn. After a lifetime of work, like other middle class families, we have just finished paying for our home. We signed up for Medi-Cal thinking that our assets were protected under the ACA. No where in the application process was I told about the Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Program. Due to a recent notice form Medi-Cal I have been informed that due to our age group (55-64) that care or services delivered through Medi-Cal are fully billable to our estate upon our death. That means our home, which is our only substantial asset, will be subject to a government lien to pay for prescriptions, doctor's visits, hospitalizations and beyond. As it stands today, Medi-Cal is not health care for low income seniors but a loan program with homes, cars, life insurance, stocks, retirement funds, virtually any asset serving as collateral. As we know, a week's stay in a hospital with surgery for any reason can easily amount to the total value of a home in California. For someone with an expensive monthly prescription the cost over 10 years time could be substantial. This is surely not the intent of the Affordable Health Care Act with it's Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) expansion. Please help Medi-Cal seniors like myself and my husband obtain the same financial security as those who purchase subsidized insurance through the exchanges, purchase health insurance, or receive health insurance as a benefit through their work. Please help by signing this petition urging Governor Brown and the California State Legislature to take immediate action to change the certain risk that the Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Program posses to the assets of low income seniors in California. Please due it now. Please, before you or someone you know looses their inheritance due to their parent's enrollment in Medi-Cal. Thank you for helping!

We need to support home economy to let the nation's economy grow.

So tired of wealth winning over poverty in this state (NC) Teachers need a better wage too! It will help all children in the state if both of these 2 issues get addressed promptly.

The daily torture of ducks for corporate profit needs to end now!

Wages in New Mexico have traditionally be low even though the cost of living is not low. Raising the minimum wage would be a real help.

This week, the Missouri House may take up Right to Work. Speaker of the Missouri House Tim Jones, in an effort to impress shadowy Washington D.C. groups ahead of a potential run for statewide office, has effectively given control of the State House to Grover Norquist, one of America’s most prominent corporate shills despite strong bi-partisan opposition to the bill. There is a strong bipartisan opposition in the Missouri house to so-called Right to Work. Republicans and Democrats are working together to stop this bill which would be a disaster for Missouri families. We need to remind Speaker Jones that he represents Missourians, not out-of-state power brokers.

The new "don't say gay" teacher contract in Cincinnati Catholic schools could cost educators their jobs if they attend a gay family member's wedding or share kind words with a bullied student. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati just distributed a new 2014 teacher contract that not only bans teachers from leading a "homosexual lifestyle" or living with a partner outside of marriage, but prohibits "public support" for any position contradicting official church policies. This new contract is the culmination of a growing right-wing crackdown in this archdiocese. In recent years, teachers and administrators have been fired for becoming pregnant by artificial insemination or writing personal blog posts supporting marriage equality. Teachers have until the end of the school year to sign the contract, but local Catholics are already beginning to object. Let's show the archbishop that there's a growing national outcry calling for the church to start living up to Pope Francis's call for a new tone.

Pre 9/11 caregivers and veterans aren't receiving adequate support services where many movements, pay and support were enacted only for post 9/11 veterans and their caregivers. Disabilities created by U.S. wars shouldn't be treated differently based on the war that caused the disability. Obviously the needs are the same.