There have been studies showing that it's hard for ex-offenders to find work. I am an ex-offender have been diligently searching for work, to no avail. The sad part is people read your resume and see that you have checked the box where you been a convicted felon, and judge the book before reading it. A lot of these EX-offenders and the keyword is "ex" are mainly looking for second chances.

In the average state election, less than 20% of campaign contributions come from within the election district. What honest purpose could companies and individuals have when giving money to influence who will represent you but not them?

With the amount of media attention being paid toward LGBT youth violence and self harm rising, it's time to let the people decide how to address the issue. LGBT people have no official voice and no identity amongst our formal education system. Instead, the far right has its say by maintaining a gag order against even the mention of anything remotely related to LGBT culture in texts, lectures, etc. This must change in order to gain the validation necessary so that queer youth have a solid foundation toward self, wherein they can contribute to the larger identity of the United States and the world. We already have a place in Global Culture, why not in education?

currently commanding officer's are personally responsible for those under their command,as it should be except in this case, a commanding officer can kiss his career goodbye if a sexual assault happens amongst his troops,the CO has every reason to cover it up and no reason to follow through except honor which is small comfort midway through a career.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't take complaints seriously! I have a complaint that has been basically ignored since filing...The Commission is in with the same companies that are reported to them, thus invalidating the seriousness of the complaint.

On Wednesday, Howie Carr, a conservative talk radio host wrote an offensive column for The Boston Herald entitled "White and Wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren". Here are just a couple of the unbelievable quotes from the column: "The race card—like so many others, Barack Obama never leaves home without it. " "Maybe someday [Warren will] even smokum peace pipe with Tim Geithner. " See the article here: http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061128614 Carr's article insinuates that President Obama and Elizabeth Warren did not earn their positions at Harvard Law. Also, that it goes so far as to infer—that any person who identifies themselves as a person of color and holds a position of power, that they only did so by playing the "race card". We all know that political campaigns get ugly. We shouldn't expect the contest between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown to be an exception. But dragging out despicable stereotypes and denigrating whole groups of people goes way too far. Instead of stoking the fires of this hate-filled story, the Brown campaign needs to focus on the issues. That's why I created a petition on SignOn.org to Senator Brown, asking him to make it clear that he wont give silent approval to these kinds of attacks.

IF and when voters pass a no on spending, such as Portland Oregon light rail extension to the airport, and city government builds it anyway, and it looses revenue monthly; the officials involved should be held accountable financially,'personally' liable.

On every issue at hand President Obama has done so much to make things better for everyone. President Obama has signed bills and laws to enrich our lives. He believes that things should be fair, no one can say that his hard work and efforts are not for the betterment of fairness which leads to the betterment for the people of this country and other countries.

In this historic "down" economy, we have lost our business's, jobs, our homes, filed bankruptcy, etc., but most of all, our valued credit scores for 7-10 yrs. This keeps us from ever raising above the current issues. You can help us by changing the time period to 1-3 years. We need your help ASAP.

People should sign my legalizing marajuana petition because being bad for you is so old school. My husband had cancer and this was the only thing that helped his pain.. He choose it over the prescription pain medication which in my eyes was a good thing, thank you.

Teachers are required to continue education through out their working years. Teachers who retire after thirty years are however left to pay high student loan payments after retirement, although their retirement benefits are very low. Any teacher who serves children in the public school sector for thirty continouious years, student loans should be canceled.

Since we are stuck with "Citizens United" and unlimited corporate money in politics, we should at least get TRUTH in advertising. This will hold politicians accountable with what they say in ads. Right now, lies are allowed to be perpetrated with no penalty. This must stop!