• ASL for national evening news
    Even though the news has captioning available, to be more accessible for the deaf who use sign language, an ASL interpreter could be shown in the bottom corner of the broadcasts. I first saw this (on the tv at the gym) while watching a news broadcast being aired in Puerto Rico. This would provide a more equal access to the news for those with American Sign Language as their primary language!
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    Created by Patty Kunc
  • Mandate Employers To Disclose Reasons For Disqualified Job Applicants
    Although there is legislation pending to forbid employment agencies or employer from listing qualifications that include "currently employed" as a criteria for hiring, unemployment status is still an unprotected class under employment discrimination laws. Furthermore, employers are not required to disclose the reasons why a job applicant may be disqualified or rejected from consideration beyond the standardized form letter that usually states, "other applicants more qualified", "more closely fit our needs", "we were impressed by your work experience, however..." , in addition they do not provide results of pre-assessment or pre-questionnaires taken in the process of applying for employment, and many times lack a contact name, phone number or reply e-mail address to a recruiter or staff dept. if an applicant wishes to inquire or challenge the disqualification or rejection notification. We need legislators to force employers to provide these reasons in order for potential employees to have an opportunity to have knowledge on how they may need to improve themselves for the next opportunity and for employers to be more considerate of the time consumed by the applicant, and adopt a fairness policy applicable to the selection process. This mandate will help relieve the suspicion that an applicant is not being considered due to age, gender, race , disability ,etc. and/or other employment discrimination. If an employer doesn't agree to provide this information then they should be subject to punitive laws that are applicable to employment discrimination. Too many unemployed people are not getting a fair shake or reason and it's time they did.
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    Created by Kirk V Reid
  • Stop Subsidizing Conventional Farming, Subsidize Organic Instead
    Billions of tax dollars are spent on farm subsidies every year. While these subsidies may originally have helped small farmers, they are now helping huge factory farms and big business to poison the American population with toxic food like corn fed beef, polyunsaturated vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrup and corn, soy and wheat fillers. The economic and health consequences of this are huge. If we took the current funding for farm subsidies and re-directed this to subsidizing organic farming instead, this would help the environment and economy by supporting small, sustainable farming practices, and improve our national health by providing affordable access to healthy food to American families.
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    Created by Taymar Pixley
  • Stop HB 4770. Save Domestic Partner Benefits
    HB 4770 would prohibit providing health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of public employees and would take away health insurance coverage from LGBT families throughout the state. It's discriminatory and it's unconstitutional.
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    Created by Sarah Cohen
  • Nursing Home Reform
    Reform of Nursing Home Laws to benefit the residents of Nursing Homes.
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    Created by Barbara Bolam
  • Save the Beaver of Estes Park, Colorado
    I am appalled with the Estes Valley Recreational District's decision to construct a trail alongside the beaver ponds on Fish Creek Road. In particular, beginning construction of the trail at a time that will potentially be responsible for the death of the entire beaver colony. Do they not care? Silly question! Of course they don't. Otherwise, they would have heeded input from experts at the November 15th Public Meeting and delayed construction until next spring. If you care anything about our wild brothers and sisters, it's time to speak out and sign this petition.
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    Created by Weldon Lee
  • Congressional Pay
    We, the people, need to act like the bosses we are. We should control when and how much our elected officials get paid.
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    Created by Arlie Daniel
  • Tell Congress to Save our Postal Service
    The Postal Service is poised at the edge of financial collapse, not due to declines in mail, but as a result of unfair Congressional mandates that are crippling it from the inside. This non-profit service agency is not funded by taxpayer dollars and has served the citizens of this United States since before the actual birth of this country. This national treasure needs to be protected! Tell Congress to stop fiddling while the Postal Service burns!!
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    Created by Darcy Wood
  • LA Supervisors: Stop the Costly Jail Expansion in Los Angeles!
    In response to the realignment of prisoners to the county jails. L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has proposed a $1.4 billion expansion to Los Angeles County jails. This expansion would add 393 expensive and unneeded beds to LA's jails. Realignment should be utilized to expand community programs and alternatives to incarceration not to build more cages.
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    Created by Emily Harris
  • DCF Help Protect Our Children
    The way DCF handles calls on child abuse or sexual abuse. Do our children or Grand children have to become a statistic before they do anything.
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    Created by Pamela Hartley
  • Funding for Second Chance Programs
    I currently work for a non profit apprenticeship painting program for ex-felons giving them a second chance to change their lifestyles and to be mainstreamed back into society as a viable entity in their community. This program keeps our youth off the streets, a prevention for lowering crime and out of the penal system. We are the only minority apprenticeship in the State of Virginia and partnering with the Department of Juvenile Justice and we cant get funding for these youth. We currently have 21 youth involved in this program, yet they want us to help others but won't support us in our endeavors.
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    Created by Betty J. Hawkins
  • Hold banks and Directors accoutable for their criminal behavior in mortgage fraud
    For some reason not single banks, director, officer or employee has been prosecuted and sent to prison for the crimes that they commited by fraudulently inflating home prices, improperly influencing appraisers, fabricating false income information, lying in loan applications, selling fraudulent loan to unkowing investors like pension plans Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (who we the people bailed out). In addition to their fraud originating these loan and selling them off in the secondary markets and robbing the American people of the American Dream they purchased default insurance from companies like AIG (who we the people bailed out) to profit even further if, and when, the America People defaulted on exploding loans that were destined to fail from the start. In otherwords, they bought life insurace on terminally ill patients and lied to the insurance company saying that they were healthy. As if that was not enough profit, they fraudulently sold these loans to multiple parties and then lied in the foreclosure paperwork to cover up the fraud. At the end, instead to locking them up to rot in jail they were not invesstigated and received a bail out (that we the people also paid). If any person did this once they would rightfuly go to prison. But if big banks do this millions of times they don't get investigated because everyone did it. When are we going to see the first bank executive go to prison for their misdeed when every day thousands of Americans become homeless as a result of their fraud. Enough cover up and prosecute. What messsage are we sending our children and the world?
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    Created by Pelayo M Duran