get right at the heart of how we fund public education in this state.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.