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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 TV interview
“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”
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By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
Carl Weisbrod
Carl Weisbrod
stated on March 3, 2024 an op-ed
“The average commute time for people who drive to work in (New York City) is 43 minutes, the longest in the nation.”
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By Mary McNaughton, Delainey Muscato • March 25, 2024
Linda Rosenthal
Linda Rosenthal
stated on February 6, 2024 a quote in a news article
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft.
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By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • February 21, 2024
Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 a news release
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
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By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 News release
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
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By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 TV interview
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
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By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 13, 2021 in an interview on Fox News
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
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By Amy Sherman • March 19, 2021
United Association’s Union Plumbers and Pipefitters Vote! PAC
United Association’s Union Plumbers and Pipefitters Vote! PAC
stated on September 15, 2020 a TV ad.
Nick Freitas “voted to let businesses discriminate and fire expecting mothers for no other reason but their pregnancy. ”
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By Warren Fiske • October 5, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 1, 2020 an interview
“PPP on average probably provided a grant of around $11,000 per employee."
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By Lawrence Andrea • July 24, 2020
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 21, 2020 a tweet
“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”
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By John Pullano • May 7, 2020
Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray
stated on April 8, 2020 a tweet
Congressional candidate Chris Jacobs “voted against paid leave for COVID-19.”
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By Meghan Hall, Hannah Roesch • May 6, 2020
Cheri Toalson Reisch
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice
“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”
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By Sean Na • March 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 a public forum
“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”
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By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 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
Nikki Bowmar
Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 a comment in a newspaper article
Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."
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By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet
"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet
Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."
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By Olivia Garrett • February 21, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.
Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"
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By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the State of the Union speech
"Since we passed tax cuts, over 3 million workers have gotten tax cut bonuses — many of them thousands and thousands of dollars."
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By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2018
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