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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 29, 2022 an interview
In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave."
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December 8, 2022
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on October 25, 2022 a debate
The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 5, 2022
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on January 29, 2020 a speech
“Over the past year, Illinois has reduced its unemployment rate more than all of the top 20 most populated states in the nation — and more than our Midwestern peers.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
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By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet
"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 11, 2019 a Facebook post
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."
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By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019
Randy Bryce
Randy Bryce
stated on March 14, 2018 an interview
"Our campaign staff was the first to unionize in the history of politics."
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April 25, 2018
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans
stated on August 5, 2017 a statement sent to the Atlanta Journal Constitution
There are"thousands of Georgia workers that are misclassified as independent contractors," who lose benefits, including health care.  
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By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2017
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 25, 2017 a speech at City & State’s State of NY Women forum
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."
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By Dan Clark • June 9, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on May 2, 2017 her book "Women Who Work"
"40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners."
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By Lauren Carroll • May 3, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 20, 2017 an interview
Says Scott Walker is proposing to add 485 employees "in the category of supervisor and management" to his Department of Administration.
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March 1, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview before a speech in Winston-Salem, NC
Says he and Bernie Sanders have "very similar" views on trade
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By Will Doran • July 27, 2016
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 a press release
"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."
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By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016
William Barber
William Barber
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech announcing the Moral Monday march
"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"
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By Will Doran • April 28, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
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October 7, 2015
stated on September 22, 2015 a speech
Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  
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September 30, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 a debate
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."
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By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015
Tom Toles
Tom Toles
stated on June 18, 2015 an editorial cartoon
A "working woman" will earn $7.70 on $10.
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By April Hunt • July 10, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
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By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on March 10, 2015 an interview
Wisconsin is "dead last in the Midwest for job creation."   
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March 16, 2015
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