Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

Bernie Sanders overplays Canada’s out-of-pocket health care costs

By Jon Greenberg

February 22, 2019

"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you…

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Warren: U.S. rubber-stamped deal; Bayer-Monsanto now controls 25% market share

By Jon Greenberg

February 14, 2019

"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."…

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Omar garbles details of McDonald’s CEO and typical worker pay

By Jon Greenberg

February 12, 2019

"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral…

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On expanded Medicare proposal, Cory Booker cites nonexistent CBO study

By Jon Greenberg

February 8, 2019

"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the…

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Ocasio-Cortez says there is 70% support for Medicare for All

By Jon Greenberg

February 6, 2019

"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."

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Warren: Top 0.1% own about as much as the bottom 90%

By Jon Greenberg

January 31, 2019

"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."  

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Recycled meme falsely says Trump bragged about lying in book

By Jon Greenberg

January 15, 2019

Quotes President Donald Trump as saying, "You tell people a lie three times, they will believe anything. You tell people what they want to hear,…

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Warren overstates share of tax cuts for the rich

By Jon Greenberg

January 9, 2019

With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."  

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Obama 2013 and Trump 2018. Are the shutdowns the same? Not exactly

By Jon Greenberg

January 2, 2019

"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."  

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No, Nancy Pelosi’s home doesn’t sit behind a high wall

By Jon Greenberg

December 13, 2018

Uses a picture of a mansion to say that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lives surrounded by "a high perimeter wall with gun toting security."  

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If women worked as much as men, would US GDP jump 5 percent?

By Jon Greenberg

December 12, 2018

"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."  

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Amy Klobuchar: Number, rate of children without insurance rises

By Jon Greenberg

December 5, 2018

"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."  

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