Latest Fact-Checks In Income

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 14, 2014 various blogs and Internet comments
Wisconsin is "dead last in income growth" among midwestern states during Gov. Scott Walker’s term.
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on August 15, 2014 a campaign ad
Says of Mitch McConnell, "What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 25, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 30, 2014 a tweet
"Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year."  
True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2014 a meme on social media
"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on July 29, 2014
Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support "a national minimum wage." 
Mostly True
By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 a letter to taxpayers
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2014 the White House Summit on Working Families
"I don't own a single stock or bond … I have no savings accounts."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Molly O'Connor • June 24, 2014
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 Senate floor speeches and during a news conference
The Senate proposal to restore emergency unemployment benefits for five months was "fully paid for."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 22, 2014
Erin Lynch
Erin Lynch
stated on June 11, 2014 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate
"The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2014
Jack Reed
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."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 8, 2014 a radio interview
"The average person who gets the minimum wage in America is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • May 21, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 16, 2014 a speech at the New America Foundation
"Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2014
Alicia Menendez
Alicia Menendez
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession."
True
By Julie Kliegman • April 27, 2014
Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"95 percent of the income gains in the last few years have gone to the top 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release
"In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns."
Mostly True
April 23, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on April 13, 2014 an appearance on “10 News Conference”
"In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2014
Gary Peters
Gary Peters
stated on April 14, 2014 a press release
Says opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act is part of the Koch brothers’ agenda.
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • April 18, 2014
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Partnership for Women & Families
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release
"Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent."
True
By Dana Tims • April 10, 2014
Genevieve Wood
Genevieve Wood
stated on April 8, 2014 comments on CNN
"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 9, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on March 25, 2014 a jobs proposal
"Wisconsin wages are declining at double the rate of other states."
Pants on Fire!
By Dave Umhoefer • March 31, 2014
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