I believe in the freedom of small business to grow without being legislated out by big corporations. And I like craft beer.

The devaluing of labor has created an ever growing population of the working poor. As a society we have established a "poverty line." No employer should be able to so work the system that their employees qualify for public assistance under normal conditions. A minimum wage that is tied to the cost of living is the only answer. The tax dollars saved would dramatically improve this state's ability fund necessary programs, such as schools and infrastructure projects, instead of enriching those individuals or corporations that lobby for keeping the status quo.

South Carolina voters: Please contact your state senator and representative and plead with them to accept Medicaid Expansion so that people who make less than $11,000 can have health insurance.

As a member of OFA'S Women's Leader Ship Corps and Community Leader Standing with Women, I am starting this petition on behalf of the Women of Nevada impacted the most by low wage salaries who have asked for intervention when it comes to the high cost of child care and other living expenses while working in minimum wage jobs Nevada is famous for. They have indicated making minimum wage salaries hinders them from working and/or looking for work due to the high cost of childcare making it impossible to work under the current minimum wage scale. We need Governor Sandoval to increase the minimum wage to a minimum of $10.10 an hour, then help us establish an affordable Child Care Coop Nevadans can afford while they work and look for work.

If someone is ready, willing and able to work full time, they should be able to support themselves , their family and be able to save for the future without assistance from the State. We deserve an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.

We deserve an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected. Join with me in calling on our state Senate to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage to $12.” (or higher!)

Texas' current minimum wage is $7.25. that's not enough to live on. join me in calling on our state legislature to raise it to at least $10.00. A rising tide raises all boats.

Allowing people to earn a living wage!

Allowing people to earn a living wage!

The United States has become a de facto plutocracy/oligarchy and that plutocracy/oligarchy is contemptible. Hate it. Demand it be fixed now. *http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/12/01/3007011/minimum-wage-percent-leave-workers/ **http://robertreich.org/post/45333866908 and Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index inflation calculator.

I've been forced to live with an abuser five years too long simply to protect my children from being abused by their own father. The courts are more often then not awarding at least standard if not full custody to the known abusive parent and the protective parent is made to look vindictive. I'm not vindictive. I just happen to feel that my children and all children deserve to have the same constitutional rights as their adult counterparts. We call the problem women's issues. I beg to differ- I have a son and I have many friends with sons, it's not women's issues, it's actually a lack of human liberty's issues. It is time for transparency in family courts, juvenile courts and most importantly with child and family "services"- (and I use that term loosely). The above mentioned entities need to be required to have outside, non-affiliated auditors and checks and balances mandated and in place to protect human rights and constitutional rights of adults and children. The system is so quick to believe that children can't comprehend what is in their own best interest. The system is wrong. Children know if they are safe or not with a parent- or an abusive parent. Children aren't that easily manipulated. In fact, Children are smarter today then in any other time in history. Children deserve basic constitutional and human rights without the court systems infringing on the rights constitutional rights of the children and often forcing the protective parent go bankrupt fighting a losing battle due to the fact that abusive parents are afforded constitutional rights and children are not granted the same constitutional rights. Due to this imbalance of power and the virtual inability of children to have a voice or even human and constitutional rights, children are not being protected under the same constitution as adults, in particular an abusive parent. It is time to fight to protect the safety and constitutional rights of innocent children. Children being forced to go with an abusive parent or even live with them full time is an epidemic and world-wide problem with no incentive to stop the injustice, unless we grant children constitutional rights. Please sign this petition and let's give our children a voice and a chance at what I always believed was a basic human right- constitutional rights. While I was memorizing the constitution while I was growing up, no one ever mentioned that it wasn't relevant to me as a child. Our children know what is in their best interest far more than any courts. Please sign- it's time we grant constitutional rights to children.

As a teacher in an ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom, I am consistently impressed by the determination of hardworking migrant students, most of whom are separated from their families as they struggle to establish a new and better life for themselves and their children. Immigrants presently face sometimes insurmountable hurdles as they attempt to navigate our dysfunctional immigration system. It is only just that we welcome these migrants who, as they attempt to support their families and improve their lots in life, must hide in the shadows while laboring to provide us with goods and services. We have a moral responsibility to share the wealth that we have been afforded by the efforts of our immigrant ancestors.