There are hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs in the United States due to a shortage of skilled workers.There are millions of unemployed older workers who want to learn these new career skills. This program would facilitate the rapid deployment of new career mentorships/apprenticeships without offering workers compensation for a short period of time. Under most of today's state and federal laws this is impossible.

It is time for Kentucky to embrace the factors that create a stronger, more flexible and global workforce. Those factors are education, entrepreneurship, and economic development. It is our responsibility to desire education, but the governments responsibility to provide it. Not only our schools, but also our colleges should be more job and skill focused. By creating an education system based on creating skilled students to meet those opportunities we will be ahead of the curve, by creating the curves. If the economic data supports an increase in railways in Kentucky, maybe it is time to offer advanced courses in railway engineering, etc. By involving ourselves in removing the curriculum that creates junk degrees and leaves disillusioned college graduates and high school graduates who don't compare with foreign countries we will be preparing ourselves for the future, and for right now. Entrepreneurship is difficult, but ultimately the number one creator of jobs. Our state already succeeds at having low government barriers to entry for entrepreneurs it was eight dollars to register your business and now I believe it is just sales tax and a 1% tax on profit(although since most profit is made at the margins this is more harmful than helpful). The next barrier is capital. We need to encourage local banks to issue more entrepreneurship loans, backed by collateral or to offer education on entrepreneurship and have the government create banking incentives for the banks that do offer these trainings. By increasing access to capital for Kentuckians we will be encouraging their successes and failures, both of which will teach people more about business and about life in general. Economic development, this one is huge. How to encourage more businesses to the area, tax breaks, cheap labor, beautiful scenery? I think having devoted staff giving tours, and showing the economic benefits at the same time would be an excellent way to advance business in the state. Also, launching a doing business in Kentucky magazine that could focus on specific trades and industries to be distributed free of charge to other trade magazines as an advertising bundle with their latest issue could be another step. Ultimately, the ideas are out there and it is in the government's best interest to advance industry in the state and to start looking for small international competitors to increase FDI, raise unemployment, and to globalize the Kentucky workforce. Everyone who has signed this petition agrees, it is time for Kentucky to spread our Commonwealth(our intelligence, hard work, and loyalty) to the rest of the world, and reap the benefits.

To make the people that are millionairs pay the same taxes i pay. To make everyone in congress buy and pay for their own Health Care and Life insurance.

THIS is about kidnapping of one TYRONE FIELD ,put in prison and given whole new sentence of 15 years while in prison without seeing a judge or going to court,his crime burgulary of his own home ,this man was takeing care of his elderly parents when state of FLORIDA issued a fake warrent for his arrest and had him picked up and thrown in prison for 15 years,now while in prison in state of FLORIDA ,this man followed all steps to there rules and was given no reason as to why he was put in prison and was hiden from site of public,family ,loved ones,for 2 long years this man fought to get his freedoom and let truth be told and state of FLORIDA and DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION covered his cry for justice up and kept him hiden in there system,it wasnt until laywer his family hired and newspaper got hold of his story that this man was set free and then there was no one saying we sorry or taking blame for wrong done to this man,this could be anyone of us,by signing this it will help others as to be aware of mistreatment and right to due process of law that was taking away from this man,AWARENESS,,,

For all of you that grew up with tmnt and have been waiting for a new live action movie that is done correctly sign this petition. We need to stop Michael bay he want the teenage MUTANT ninja turtle to be aliens from outer space which we all know is ridiculous because mutant is in the title he has destroy enough of our childhoods and we can not take it anymore

" I am against the awful immigration laws in the state of Alabama. I know the Governor supports these laws, but they are not fair and they are unjust. Governor Bentley can stand for what is right or support racial injustice. Governor Bentley also can save our schools by not allowing budget cuts to our schools.

17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Three weeks after Martin's death, no arrests have been made and Zimmerman remains free.

In the past few months the excessive, unjust, and unreasonable banning going on in the popular role playing game Feral Heart is getting out of control.In the months prior to its shut down these complaints were minimal but now it seems they are running rampant throughout the community.There have been several situations of unexplained banning, excessive banning, and other instances of unfair or unjust treatment. People have found themselves to be banned randomly upon log in or banned for several months for extremely insignificant causes, we find these to be ridiculous and to only cause more problems instead of making Feral Heart a great place for everyone. The generally rule abiding players of this game are having serious issues with this and many find that things are getting extremely out of hand. We would for the most part love to continue playing and supporting this game but if these actions continue we may be forced to go another route.

Treyvon"s death should not be over looked what if he was a white boy justice will be forfilled for him, so what about Treyvon I know he deserves the same.

This petiton is a list of grievances from the Maine People to Governor Paul LePage. Maine people need a better representation of their tax dollar. Stop the greed. Protect the general welfare of all Maine People.

The Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory is the only U.S. deep submergence facility in the Pacific Rim tasked with supporting undersea research necessary to fulfill the mission, goals, and objectives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with other national interests of importance. Over 30 years of submersible operations have resulted in nearly 1900 dives representing 9300 hours underwater, and a benthic ecology database derived from in-house video record logging of over 125,000 entries based on 1100 unique deep-sea animal identifications in the Hawaiian Archipelago. With emerging interest in marine resources of the Pacific and renewable energy from the sea, HURL's contributions will continue to play an essential role in scientific research and advanced technology. HURL was established by Cooperative Agreement in 1980 between NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i, at which point it became a Regional Center in NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP). In 2009, President Obama signed Public Law 111-11 authorizing both NURP and Ocean Exploration (OE), and their administration under a merged program called the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). The Center supports highly-rated, peer-reviewed proposals to conduct undersea research in offshore and nearshore waters of the main and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and waters of the central, southern, and western Pacific, including the new marine national monuments. In addition, HURL accepts funded requests from private, state, or federal agencies and participates in international collaborative research projects. As of March, 2012, NOAA has zeroed out funding for the Undersea Research Program (NURP) for FY13 beginning Oct 1, 2012, and put all the centers on life support funding (or less) for the current year. Many other NOAA programs, mostly extramural ones, have been cut to some level, though it appears only NURP and another have had their funding zeroed out completely. From NOAA’s 2013 OAR budget description: "National Undersea Research Program (NURP): NOAA requests a decrease of $3,985,000 and 6 FTEs to terminate the NURP component of OER. NOAA determined that NURP was a lower-priority function within its portfolio of research activities, particularly given that other avenues of Federal funding for such activities might be pursued. NOAA will continue to support the Ocean Exploration program, which delineates the Extended Continental Shelf and produces significant discoveries in deep sea research. Competitive grants for related activity will continue to be offered through NOAA and other Federal programs." As of right now, there is no known other funding to maintain the manned submersible capability that HURL provides. Hawai‘i is home to two of only eight human occupied submersibles of their kind. Pisces IV and Pisces V are three-person, battery-powered, one-atmosphere submersibles with a maximum operating depth of 2000 m. They offer scientists direct observation through view ports, HD video cameras, sample collecting, instrument placement, and environmental monitoring. Over the past 30 years HURL's accomplishments include long-term studies of Lo‘ihi submarine volcano and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Notable discoveries include an historically significant Japanese midget submarine and deep-sea corals that are some of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Work in the newest U.S. marine national monuments led to an international five-month investigation throughout the central and southwestern Pacific that involved 58 scientists from 12 research entities and included the first submersible dives on 13 different undersea volcanoes. A new 6000-m capable ROV will further enable exploration of NOAA’s four new Marine National Monuments in the Pacific. For a relatively small ~$3 million per year, this type of work can continue. It will cost far more to recreate this capability in the future than to support it now and let it evolve to meet the NOAA missions and National interests of the future. We are calling on Congress to appropriate adequate money so that the U.S. can be a world leader in deep-sea research via a submersible-based scientific program presence in the Pacific region. NOAA as a whole does really good work; let us help it continue.

Tax deduction of student loan interest and payments no matter what your income. Stop compounding student loan interest Ability to renegotiate loan interest rates as they drop similar to a mortgage to take advantage of better rates and have the same rate as new borrowers