Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Dan Patrick
stated on October 17, 2016 in a press release titled “Lt. Governor Unveils Faith-Based Initiative on Foster Care Children,”:

"Several elected state officials have opened their homes to children in need of loving families."

By Bobby Cervantes • October 28, 2016

Donna Howard
stated on August 23, 2016 in a press conference by Austin Democrats:

Child care costs "in some states now exceed the average price tag for college tuition."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 in x:

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2016 in a tweet:

Says the media distorted what happened with a baby at his rally.

By Linda Qiu • August 8, 2016

Don Willett
stated on May 13, 2016 in the majority Texas Supreme Court opinion in Texas school finance case:

Before 2005, "the percentage of" Texas high school "students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28% in English and 42% in math. Those figures stood at 65% and 66% in 2013."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2016

Vicky Hartzler
stated on October 9, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs."

By Sean Nelson • November 30, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 31, 2015 in a speech to the National Urban League in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.:

"African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids."

By Christian Belanger • August 11, 2015

Nathan Deal
stated on June 3, 2015 in press conference:

"Since 2010, eight children in Georgia have died due to vehicular heatstroke."

By Nancy Badertscher • June 5, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 in a speech in Iowa:

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015

The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 in article:

Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.

By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015

Karina Wood
stated on February 12, 2015 in testimony before the R.I. Senate Judiciary Committee:

Cigarette butts "poison babies and small children because of the nicotine in them."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 23, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on July 21, 2014 in an interview with Laura Ingraham:

More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week "than are born in Texas each week."

By Philip Jankowski • September 12, 2014

Henry Cuellar
stated on July 6, 2014 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"If you're a Mexican, you get sent back. ... But if you're from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries" then you can stay in the United States.

By Molly O'Connor • July 10, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2013 in a speech:

"By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family."

By Julie Kliegman • December 5, 2013

David Cicilline
stated on July 21, 2013 in an appearance on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers" program:

"The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 1, 2013

Don Lemon
stated on July 27, 2013 in a commentary on CNN:

"More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock."

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2013

Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:

Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."

By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013

Oregon PTA
stated on May 17, 2013 in a newsletter:

Says, "Oregon has the third largest class size in the nation."

By Christian Gaston • May 31, 2013

Larry Valencia
stated on March 19, 2013 in radio interview:

"Do you know that, statistically, when you take the SAT a second time, one third of the people that take the SAT, even if they've been studying, will get a lower score than they did the first time around?"

By Patrick Marley • March 24, 2013

Dan Saltzman
stated on November 11, 2012 in a television news interview :

Says the Portland Children’s Levy holds its "administrative expenses to less than 5 percent."

By Janie Har • December 19, 2012

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