Millions of Americans are what are commonly referred to as the working poor. These are workers who have jobs, yet do not make enough to get off government assistance programs. Many corporations pay their employees the absolute minimum and refuse to even offer them healthcare leaving states to pick up the check with programs like Medicaid. That could all change, at least in California.

Today the NH House voted to kill the expanded gambling bill, SB 152. SB152 was a bill about creating new jobs. The same jobs that many of these House members campaigned on. This also means that NH is going to continue to starve our budgets. SB152 would have added $80 million dollars in new revenue to the NH Budget. After todays vote, that is gone.

It is no secret that workers are consistently loosing ground and executive are raking in more and more. We have seen this in the majority of corporations like Walmart and McDonalds. Even though many are outraged by this, there is not much we can do about it because it is their company. However if this were happening at our state funded community colleges we would do something right?

Young Republicans and young Democrats come together to oppose Voter ID restrictions being debated in the NH Legislature. The current debate is about stopping ‘phase two’ of the O’Brien legislation that would greatly reduce the number of allowable forms of identification. This means that student IDs would no longer be valid.