Latest Fact-Checks By Katie Mulvaney

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Erika Sanzi
Erika Sanzi
stated on March 5, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • March 15, 2015
Nancy Denuccio
Nancy Denuccio
stated on March 6, 2015 in a TV interview:
"We've seen the increase of alcohol use for underage kids even though alcohol has been illegal ... for kids under 21."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • March 13, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 19, 2015 in a news conference:
"Contrary to popular belief, we actually don’t have that many public employees…We are well below average in the number of public employees.’’
True
By Katie Mulvaney • March 8, 2015
Bishop Thomas Tobin
Bishop Thomas Tobin
stated on January 22, 2015 in a newspaper column:
"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • March 2, 2015
James Skeffington
James Skeffington
stated on February 10, 2015 in a radio interview:
Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and "virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • February 26, 2015
Sheila Resseger
Sheila Resseger
stated on January 10, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests."       
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • February 15, 2015
Susan Shapiro
Susan Shapiro
stated on January 15, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted -- an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • February 9, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn
stated on November 25, 2014 in a website story:
"There’s nothing in the [RhodeMap RI] plan that takes away local government control and local zoning control."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 16, 2015
James Aubin
James Aubin
stated on January 5, 2015 in a newspaper commentary:
"Colorado raked in $60 million in marijuana taxes and licensing fees in the past year."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 11, 2015
James Crowley
James Crowley
stated on December 6, 2014 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 21, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on November 14, 2014 in a radio interview:
"According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • December 14, 2014
Diego Arene-Morley
Diego Arene-Morley
stated on November 18, 2014 in a community forum:
"There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 7, 2014
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on November 14, 2014 in a newspaper interview:
Rhode Island's legislature is "the strongest in the country."
True
By Katie Mulvaney • November 30, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on November 9, 2014 in a TV interview:
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • November 27, 2014