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X posts
X posts
stated on September 19, 2025 an X post
Thirty percent of U.S. medical residents are international medical graduates, and 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.
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By Maria Briceño • October 2, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 comments at a campaign rally
"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”
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By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."  
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By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 12, 2018 an interview
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."  
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February 2, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 22, 2017 An MSNBC interview
Says West Virginia is "down to around 50 percent of the adult workers who are actually working now because of addiction or conviction."
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By Allison Colburn • October 27, 2017
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on February 13, 2017 his 2017 State of the City address
"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."
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By Dan Clark • March 8, 2017
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 17, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
"When asked about equal pay for women, (Rubio’s) quote was that it was a waste of time."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 18, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate
Says that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate
"First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage."
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By Amy Sherman • October 5, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 a press conference at the White House
Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."
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By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on May 12, 2016 in a speech
"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."
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By Taylor Leighton • July 22, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2016 in a town hall
"We've seen more manufacturing jobs created since I've been president than anytime since the 1990s. That's a fact."
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By Neelesh Moorthy • June 16, 2016
Patty Judge
Patty Judge
stated on June 1, 2016 a post-debate interview
"When a bill is sent to the governor’s office, there is no option for changing it. You sign it or you don’t sign it. While there was lots of conversation, there was really no opportunity for any sort of amending."
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By Jason Noble • June 4, 2016
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on May 9, 2016 a campaign stop at Steelworkers 1104 in Lorain, Ohio
Trade deals are negotiated in "secret" and, unlike corporate interests, politicians never invite "the leaders of the AFL-CIO or steelworkers or the mine workers to come in and sit down in these meetings."
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By Nadia Pflaum • May 19, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  
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By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016
Lee Camp
Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight"
"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."
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By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016
City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 press release
Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."
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By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015
Julie Lassa
Julie Lassa
stated on February 25, 2015 a speech on the Senate floor
The infant mortality rate is 15 percent higher in states with right-to-work laws.
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By James B. Nelson • March 5, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 24, 2015 a speech in Iowa
The woman named Wisconsin’s 2010 "outstanding teacher of the year" was laid off by the Milwaukee Public Schools that year under "seniority and tenure rules" that were eliminated by his Act 10 changes.
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By James B. Nelson • February 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 16, 2014 a press conference after the G20 summit
"Over the last few years, we’ve put more people back to work than all the other advanced economies combined."
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By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 18, 2014
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