The price of a college education should not include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

Drug Enforcement Administration head Michele Leonhart can't convince anyone in America that the DEA does anything but throw kids in jail.

The first step in the path to economic equality is redistributing the wealth wasted by reckless trades. The more traders boost volumes by harming investors, the more our American dream will turn into an American nightmare.

My name is Maria Elena Durazo. I was born into a poor immigrant family. We were farm workers who migrated with the crops, but we always carried with us our faith, our hope and our sense of obligation to those who had even less than we did. Since Cesar Chavez and the farmworker’s movement, I have dedicated myself to a simple idea-no one who works hard should stay poor. In January, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO released a study by the Economic Roundtable that showed what many of us suspected – 46 percent of workers in Los Angeles are earning poverty level wages. That percentage translates into 810,000 breadwinners and their families trying to scrape by on poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Imagine if 46 percent of the people in your city were being denied a basic freedom guaranteed under our Constitution? That would be considered a human rights crisis of immense proportions. It would be a crisis that would compel everyone to act. We live in a very rich country, yet working people in America are earning shamefully low wages denying basic human dignity. That’s why people of all faiths, from all over America are calling on Pope Francis to address the inequality of wealth plaguing our communities and to lift up the voices of millions of workers and their families.

The USDA is poised to approve the first genetically modified apple. If approved, these genetically engineered apples could end up everywhere from school lunches to grocery stores, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers across the United States. Like other GMOs, it won’t be labeled and won’t have undergone independent safety testing -- regulators will rely on the company’s sole assessment that the apple is safe for human consumption. Worse yet, this GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new, virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many scientists are concerned may have negative, unintended impacts on human health and the environment. We need your help today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.

The USDA is poised to approve the first genetically modified apple. If approved, these genetically engineered apples could end up everywhere from school lunches to grocery stores, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers across the United States. Like other GMOs, it won’t be labeled and won’t have undergone independent safety testing -- regulators will rely on the company’s sole assessment that the apple is safe for human consumption. Worse yet, this GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new, virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many scientists are concerned may have negative, unintended impacts on human health and the environment. We need your help today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.

The USDA is poised to approve the first genetically modified apple. If approved, these genetically engineered apples could end up everywhere from school lunches to grocery stores, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers across the United States. Like other GMOs, it won’t be labeled and won’t have undergone independent safety testing -- regulators will rely on the company’s sole assessment that the apple is safe for human consumption. Worse yet, this GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new, virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many scientists are concerned may have negative, unintended impacts on human health and the environment. We need your help today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.

My husband, Matthew DiPaulo, was adopted back in 1969. A time when single parenthood was a disgrace. Birth Certificates were amended to show the adoptive parents as the birth parents and original birth records were sealed. This has left 1000's of adoptees in the dark about their heritage & even more importantly their medical history. These children of adoption are now adults, many with families of their own. The time has come to end the secrecy & lies & give back to the adoptees what is rightfully theirs ..... Their original birth certificate.

The minimum wage isn't even that for which it stands living on the edge of poverty is unacceptable and we in California deserve better faster sign on and let's get California workers like yourself a much needed raise for some this is the only way they'll receive one. The working people of California are the ones who keep this state running and it's time that everyone recognize it. Struggling paycheck to paycheck is not a way for anyone to live lets mobilize and get California to be the leader it has always been

New York's current minimum wage is $8.00. That's not enough for anyone to live on! We deserve an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected. Join with me in calling on our state legislature to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15.

I am a law student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Many of my colleagues came to law school in order to make a difference in the lives of the most marginalized members of our society. Upon graduation, my colleagues will be working to address racial justice, environmental justice, intimate partner violence, juvenile justice, education reform, LGBT equality, healthcare, and many other important issues. Many of us have taken on significant debt in order to pursue our dreams, and public interest law students will take jobs that will not pay nearly enough to make their debt manageable. Capping Public Service Loan Forgiveness at $57,500 will spell the end of public interest lawyering. Only the wealthiest members of our country will be able to afford to go to law school and then choose to work in a low-paying public service job while managing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt accrued over undergraduate and graduate education. Senator Casey, we urge you to use your position on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to oppose the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in its current form in the 2015 budget.

There has been vocal opposition of a few homeowners in the area. This petition is to demonstrate that many that live nearby or in other areas of Oklahoma City are in strong support of these two projects.