Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Mary Burke
stated on June 18, 2014 a speech

"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.

By Dave Umhoefer • June 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."

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

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 1, 2014 an interview

Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"

"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.

By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014

Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 19, 2014 an interview on "PBS Newshour"

"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."

By Steve Contorno • May 22, 2014

Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union."

The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."

By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014

Eric Cantor
stated on April 22, 2014 a TV ad.

Dave Brat "worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion."

By Nancy Madsen • April 28, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on April 16, 2014 a radio interview

"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."

By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release

"In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns."

April 23, 2014

Michelle Nunn
stated on April 10, 2014 statements

"On average, women make 77 cents for every dollar men make."

By Eric Stirgus • April 18, 2014

Cokie Roberts
stated on March 31, 2014 an interview on NPR's "Morning Edition"

"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female."

By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014

Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."

By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014

Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 a Facebook post

"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 a tweet

Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 20, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2014 a speech to the Democratic National Committee in Boston

"When I talk about (raising the) minimum wage ... half of Republicans agree with it."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2014

John Kerry
stated on March 2, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation"

"The (Russian) ruble is already going down."

By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on February 27, 2014 an event at the White House

"Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men."

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2014

Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview

"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014

Bobby Jindal
stated on February 26, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

"Our economy (in Louisiana) has grown 50 percent faster than the national GDP, even since the national recession."

By Louis Jacobson • February 27, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2014 a speech

"Most folks’ wages haven’t gone up in over a decade."

February 23, 2014

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