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stated on September 24, 2013 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • October 3, 2013

Oregon Center for Public Policy
stated on August 7, 2013 in 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

Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 in an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

Of the roughly 15 percent of Americans who don’t have health insurance, "half of them made more than $50,000 a year."

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 in a speech in Galesburg, Ill.:

"The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes barely budged."

True

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2013

Sheila Oliver
stated on July 11, 2013 in an interview on NJToday:

"Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • July 25, 2013

Tony Evers
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:

A private school tax break in the Wisconsin state budget is "the most generous in the nation."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • June 28, 2013

Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House of Representatives floor speech:

"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."

Mostly True

By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2013 in a tweet:

"Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S."

True

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2013

Dale Kooyenga
stated on May 27, 2013 in an opinion piece:

Wisconsin has "one of the most progressive tax codes in the country."

Mostly True

By Dave Umhoefer • June 2, 2013

Ron Maag
stated on May 1, 2013 in news report:

Employees in "workplace freedom" states make more money

Mostly False

By Tom Feran • May 7, 2013

Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 in a campaign speech:

"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."

Mostly True

By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013

Gina Raimondo
stated on April 8, 2013 in a tweet promoting Equal Pay Day:

"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 18, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

"Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states."

True

By Tom Feran • February 14, 2013

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news release:

"Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available."

True

By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 in a report:

"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012

Robert Singer
stated on November 29, 2012 in a speech on the New Jersey Senate floor:

"More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students."

Mostly False

By Caryn Shinske • December 13, 2012

Mike White
stated on October 23, 2012 in an email to employees:

Says that with President Obama's re-election, state and federal income tax rates for some taxpayers will rise "to roughly 65 percent."

False

By Tom Kertscher • November 15, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos
stated on October 10, 2012 in a debate on New Jersey 101.5-FM:

Says "when I voted against [an increase in the minimum wage], it was in the 80s."

False

By Erin O'Neill • October 15, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on September 25, 2012 in a campaign event in New Hampshire:

"The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent."

Half-True

By Erin O'Neill • October 3, 2012

National Women's Law Center
stated on September 21, 2012 in press release:

"In every state, women are paid less than men."

True

By Janel Davis • October 1, 2012

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