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David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014 a TV ad:

Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2014

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 a hearing.:

"In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two."

By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014

Mark Obenshain
stated on February 11, 2014 a floor debate.:

"There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family."

By Nancy Madsen • February 24, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on January 28, 2014 a speech:

"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."

By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech:

Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014

Oregon Center for Public Policy
stated on August 7, 2013 website materials :

"7 out of 10 Oregon families living in poverty have at least one parent who works."

By Yuxing Zheng • September 11, 2013

E.W. Jackson
stated on June 19, 2013 a speech.:

"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."

By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2013

Carolyn Tomei
stated on May 15, 2013 a House floor speech:

Says, "In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended."

By Janie Har • May 24, 2013

Family Forward Oregon
stated on May 8, 2013 a flier:

Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world."

By Janie Har • May 18, 2013

Christopher Plante
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview:

"The governor does not have any power to veto a referendum [on same-sex marriage] that would be a constitutional amendment."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 23, 2013

Reince Priebus
stated on June 26, 2012 an interview:

Says President Barack Obama promised a "pathway to citizenship" to undocumented immigrants and "didn't deliver jack squat on any of it."

By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio:

"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012

Cecilia Muñoz
stated on February 1, 2012 a post to the White House Blog:

"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."

By Becky Bowers • February 6, 2012

United for a Fair Economy
stated on June 7, 2011 a chart:

From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential run:

The U.S. has "47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over."

By Willoughby Mariano • May 24, 2011

Roberto DaSilva
stated on March 21, 2011 a news release:

"We’re paying out-of-state residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more," to house children in state custody

By Peter Lord • April 8, 2011

Jeff Merkley
stated on September 1, 2010 a press release:

Says with the ongoing economic downturn, child abuse is on the rise.

By Michelle Cole • September 28, 2010

Ronnie Earle
stated on January 18, 2010 a speech:

"Inequality in Texas is steadily getting worse, with very few rich people, a great many poor people, and fewer and fewer in the middle."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2010

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