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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 in an op-ed for Huffington Post:
"The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • June 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in 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.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on April 8, 2014 in a news release:
"In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 23, 2014
Jason Carter
Jason Carter
stated on April 8, 2014 in social media posts:
Women are paid 77 cents for every $1 men get for the same work.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 21, 2014
Michael Solomon
Michael Solomon
stated on April 3, 2014 in a news release:
"Pregnant women who stand for five to six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2014
Gary Peters
Gary Peters
stated on April 14, 2014 in a press release:
Says opposing the Paycheck Fairness Act is part of the Koch brothers’ agenda.
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • April 18, 2014
Michelle Nunn
Michelle Nunn
stated on April 10, 2014 in statements:
"On average, women make 77 cents for every dollar men make."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 18, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on April 5, 2014 in a campaign email:
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • April 13, 2014
Genevieve Wood
Genevieve Wood
stated on April 8, 2014 in 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
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
stated on April 8, 2014 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":
"Of all the jobs President Obama claims to have created since he started, only 38.5 percent are women. So 61.5 percent have gone to men."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2014
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on March 24, 2014 in Television interview :
Women in the U.S. get 23 percent less pay than men for the same exact work.
Mostly False
By Jim Tharpe • April 4, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on March 31, 2014 in an interview on NPR's "Morning Edition":
"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 in a tweet:
Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 20, 2014
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on January 19, 2014 in an email:
A bill backed by Sean Duffy and other House Republicans "could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims" who get an abortion.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of the Union address:
Women "make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 26, 2014 in an interview with CNN:
"Over half of the young people" in medical, dental and law schools are women.
False
By Steve Contorno • January 28, 2014
Patty Murray
Patty Murray
stated on January 22, 2014 in an online statement:
In the past three years, state legislatures have "enacted more of these restrictions (on abortion) than in the previous 10 years combined."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 24, 2014
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on January 12, 2014 in a broadcast of ABC's "This Week":
"Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women."
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2014
For Our Daughters RI
For Our Daughters RI
stated on January 2, 2014 in an online petition:
"Earlier this year, [John DePetro] was accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 5, 2014
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on December 10, 2013 in an email blast:
"This is the first time in Texas history -- and only the fourth time in United States history -- that two women are running for the top spots."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 26, 2013
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