Right now the government is planning on taking the Pell grant away from millions of students nationwide. The aim is to stop anyone who has accrued more than 12 full-time semester hours from getting the Pell grant anymore. This does not take into account the many students who are working toward BA degrees in their chosen field. I personally have a great GPA and an excellent record but will be forced to quit school when this goes into effect in July. There will be a lot of students who have poor records, participation, huge drop rates, and they will be allowed to continue? Do we want serious students who have worked their butts off to maintain a good record and GPA to be forced to quit?? Should students with a poor record be allowed to continue while dedicated students are forced to mortgage their souls in order to continue?? Something needs to be done to weed out the poor students and allow those who are serious to continue!!

Many innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit solely because the state prosecutors use their own opinions on who to prosecute and who to give ridiculous deals to. This happens all over the United States and you just never know when it might happen in your family. We are asking for State Prosecutors to be held more accountable in their actions and the use of unreasonably lenient deals to be banned from our judicial system.

There have been petitions before to demand a standardized gratuity to be added on to bills. This petition, however, asks that all restaurants and bars increase price points by 20% so that gratuity is automatically added into the bill. This way, the server is happy and the customer doesn't have to deal with calculating the tip. It is astonishing to me that in this day and age that the United States still treats service industry workers as second class citizens. It is not an easy industry to work in, and its workers deserve fair pay. If you have ever visited France before, you would know that their service industry workers are treated as professionals and don't have to worry if they are going to make rent or now, because it is not up to the customer what they make.

Alot in the Southern State are base on the color of your skin. Let stop this racism that are the reason 90% of African an Latio American in the South are stero type an follow an harrass more so then an other race in the South we need to petition our learder;s an but the money in to low-income decend housing more neigborhood recreation center more job's an better education for out children

On April 18, Reuters broke a story about the largest natural gas producer in the country, Chesapeake Energy. CEO Aubrey McClendon reportedly took 1.1 billion dollars in loans "from three companies that list Chesapeake Energy HQ as their address." Chesapeake Energy was rated as a buy by Goldman Sachs and other investing firms, but was rated as bankrupt, neutral, or dump by Jefferies, Standard and Poor's, and CitiGroup (to name a few).

I am cancelling my credit card account with the company USSA because they held a rally for Rick Santorum about a month ago. Right after I emailed them about my intentions, I received a very right winged email from the CEO. I have decided I can not support a company that uses my money to support causes I do not support.

As an individual working with her community it should be considered that all Social Workers working with the working poor and disenfranchised should qualify for school loan forgiveness. Our jobs are thankless and we work mostly with low income families and don't make enough to cover or expenses plus pay for an education tha cost more than we make in a year. Please help, I'm struggling while the wealthy who make up 1% of the population aren't even paying taxes. Where is the justice. I sacrifice everyday to make sure kids aren't abused, where is the validation?

People at 55 years of age are considered Seniors. Many venues award them discounted prices starting at that age. Health Care awards no such discounts, in fact the closer a person gets to the age of 65 the higher the Healthcare cost. For example an individual health care plan at Kaiser costs $560 per month. Close the gap from 55 to 65.

Make Super Pacs not affiliated with a political party disclose their donor list so Swift boat/Karl Rove politics are a thing of the past

To make higher education to those qualified US citizens and residents of the USA in a similar manner as other countries in the world (Switzerland, France, Spain, Mexico) where higher education is affordable to all of their residents and citizens. Let's make the USA the winner and not onoy a competitor.

The bill for higher education in this country is terribly high.

The Governor or the Legislature must not not cut down Private and Religious University funds or grants.