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Latest Fact-Checks In Poverty

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • December 15, 2013
James Carville
James Carville
stated on December 8, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on December 8, 2013 an interview on ABC’s "This Week"
"About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 4, 2013 a meme on social media
"44% of homeless people are employed."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2013 a Facebook posting
"Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' But raised the minimum wage only three times."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 2, 2013
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott
stated on November 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Politics Nation"
"On (the federal minimum wage of) $7.75, you can’t even make half the poverty level."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2013
Brad Blakeman
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."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2013
Daniel Llanes
Daniel Llanes
stated on October 12, 2013 an opinion column
"78702 is the second-most gentrified ZIP code in the entire country."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2013
Jason Conger
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.  
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • October 24, 2013
stated on September 24, 2013 an interview
Among the nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas, Milwaukee is the "only one" where the poverty rate is more than "four times greater in the city than it is in the suburbs."
Half-True
October 3, 2013
Oregon Center for Public Policy
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."
Mostly True
By Yuxing Zheng • September 11, 2013
Jim Francesconi
Jim Francesconi
stated on August 7, 2013 a guest column
Half of Oregon university students are on Pell Grants.
Mostly True
By Janie Har • August 31, 2013
Jim Francesconi
Jim Francesconi
stated on August 7, 2013 an opinion article
Says "nearly half of Oregon's children are poor."
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • August 16, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"
"Why didn't (uninsured Americans) buy insurance? Because of the expense."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 an MSNBC interview
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on July 8, 2013 a tweet
"More Americans receive food aid than work in (the) private sector."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2013
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on May 15, 2013 a U.S. House committee meeting.
Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 25, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 a conference call with reporters
"Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies" but want to cut food stamps.
True
By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on May 14, 2013 a radio interview.
Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • May 28, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 a fundraising letter
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
Mostly False
By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
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