Around 6:30 a.m. Monday, 47-year-old Brenda Giles hopped on a bus in her hometown of Milwaukee to deliver a message in Madison to Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

A college-educated, single mother of two, Giles lost her teaching job in May of 2009. She has given up looking just for teaching jobs. Now she applies for anything. Living from week to week on unemployment checks is a stressful way to live, she says.

"I apply for jobs, go home and wait for no one to call," says Giles while on a bus back to Milwaukee Monday afternoon. "I will be so glad if the changes (Walker) is promising come true."

Giles joined some 700 others in Madison Monday who protested outside the Monona Terrace Convention Center during a prayer breakfast for Walker and around the Capitol while he was being sworn in as Wisconsin's 45th governor. Organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action, Voces de la Frontera and the Milwaukee Area Labor Council, participants held signs reading "Scott, You Work for Us Now," and "The Rich Get Richer, Workers Get Sacked," and said they were determined to hold Walker accountable for his campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs.