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Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2019 a campaign email to Vermont media:

"President Trump has lifted the prospect of voters across Vermont, overseeing a 11,742 decline of Vermont residents on food stamps."

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By Xander Landen • November 7, 2019

David Perdue
stated on August 8, 2017 a USA Today op-ed:

"Half of all immigrant households receive benefits from our social welfare system."

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By Miriam Valverde • August 14, 2017

Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 a radio interview.:

"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."

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By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on October 11, 2016 a TV ad :

Says Colorado congressional candidate Morgan Carroll "voted to allow welfare recipients to use your tax dollars at ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries."

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By Alan Gathright • October 13, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2016 a news conference:

"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."

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By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate:

Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."

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By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015

Ultraviolet
stated on June 15, 2015 a Facebook post:

Says Jeb Bush "said low-income women should ‘get their life together and find a husband.' "

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By Joshua Gillin • June 25, 2015

Ken Plum
stated on March 12, 2015:

"We've got 40 years of study now that show that, with a good preschool start, you're less likely to be on public dole, you're less likely to be in prison."

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By Sean Gorman • March 23, 2015

Patriot Majority USA
stated on July 22, 2014 a television ad:

A tax plan promoted by North Carolina Senate candidate Thom Tillis will "overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy."

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By Lauren Carroll • July 25, 2014

Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 comments on Fox News:

"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014

Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:

In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014

Georgia Department of Public Health
stated on April 7, 2014 department blog post:

"Georgia has the nation's fifth largest Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition program, serving more than 270,000 mothers, babies and children every day."

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By Nancy Badertscher • April 15, 2014

Glenn Grothman
stated on April 4, 2014 a radio interview:

When Republicans last controlled the presidency and Congress, "the number of people on food stamps (and) the number of people in low-income housing went through the roof."

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By Tom Kertscher • April 10, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on December 12, 2013 a tweet:

In altered photo, says Barack Obama wants "more of Texans’ private data" via health care.

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By Sue Owen • January 4, 2014

Barbara Lee
stated on December 4, 2013 an episode of CNN's "Crossfire":

"60 percent of people on food assistance are working."

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By Julie Kliegman • December 11, 2013

Brad Blakeman
stated on October 31, 2013 an interview on Fox News:

"When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When 90 percent of it is for food stamps."

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By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013

Jason Conger
stated on October 15, 2013 a campaign speech.:

Says "there are actually more people in poverty now than there were when we started" the War on Poverty.

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By Ian K. Kullgren • October 24, 2013

Oregon Center for Public Policy
stated on August 7, 2013 website materials :

"7 out of 10 Oregon families living in poverty have at least one parent who works."

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By Yuxing Zheng • September 11, 2013

Luis Gutierrez
stated on June 29, 2013 an interview with CNN:

Says under the Senate immigration bill, newly legalized immigrants will "pay every tax possible, but you don’t get a single benefit" for 10 years.

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By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2013

E.W. Jackson
stated on June 19, 2013 a speech.:

"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."

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By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2013

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