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Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2024 Speech:
“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”
True
By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 5, 2016 a speech in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage."
True
By Will Doran • July 8, 2016
Joe Roman
Joe Roman
stated on April 25, 2016 a Plain Dealer article:
Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is "the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country."  
True
By Nadia Pflaum • May 9, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News:
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."
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By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech:
Says Ron Johnson "opposes entirely a federal minimum wage," except perhaps for "guest workers."
True
By Tom Kertscher • August 27, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 19, 2015 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
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2015 Texas Public Policy Foundation policy orientation:
"I belong to the AFL-CIO."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 27, 2014 a fundraising letter:
"Among the developed nations, we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world."
True
By Joshua Gillin • November 6, 2014
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on October 26, 2014 a TV debate:
"We have the third-lowest minimum wage … of developed countries."
True
By Alex Kuffner • November 1, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 a Providence Journal-WPRI debate:
"We have a retiree that is collecting a $17,000 paycheck a month . . . tax free."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 5, 2014
Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Our economy still has three people looking for every job (opening)."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on November 27, 2013 an email:
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 29, 2013 a speech:
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt "felt there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2013
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
Sacramento Bee Editorial Board
stated on February 6, 2013 an editorial:
Says Texas is last in workers' compensation coverage.
True
By Sue Owen • February 14, 2013
Keith Faber
Keith Faber
stated on February 4, 2013 a news conference:
"Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states."
True
By Tom Feran • February 14, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 a news release:
 "Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available."
True
By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 18, 2012 a newspaper column:
"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  
True
By John Hill • November 30, 2012
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on June 12, 2012 a news release:
As Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney used a line-item veto to cut "millions of dollars for firefighting equipment," including firefighters' "coats, pants, helmets and boots."
True
By Tom Kertscher • July 1, 2012
Rashad Taylor
Rashad Taylor
stated on March 20, 2012 a speech:
"More children die in agricultural jobs than in any other industry."
True
By Eric Stirgus • April 4, 2012
Kathleen Falk
Kathleen Falk
stated on January 8, 2012 a TV interview:
Says she got unions to agree to "about $10 million in reduction" of salaries and health benefits while serving as Dane County executive in Wisconsin.
True
By Tom Kertscher • January 18, 2012
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