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Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before the House Committee on Labor:

The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014

Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary:

"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014

Dennis Richardson
stated on October 10, 2014 a campaign debate:

"Women and men both are making less when you adjust for inflation than when" John Kitzhaber was first elected governor.

By Dana Tims • October 30, 2014

Kai Ryssdal
stated on February 18, 2014 a "Marketplace" segment:

A Congressional Budget Office report says President Barack Obama’s executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract workers "will cost the economy 500,000 jobs."

By Katie Sanders • February 20, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 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."

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

Mike White
stated on October 23, 2012 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."

By Tom Kertscher • November 15, 2012

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

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

By Erin O'Neill • October 15, 2012

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 22, 2012 a campaign email:

Says 7,000 millionaires "gamed the system to pay no income taxes."

By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2012

Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 a speech:

"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts

By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2012

stated on June 12, 2012 an interview:

Since President Barack Obama took office, "you have 1,700 employees just at the Department of Transportation" earning over $170,000.

By Tom Kertscher • June 21, 2012

Reince Priebus
stated on June 5, 2012 an interview:

Says President Barack Obama wants to raise "the lowest (income) tax rate from 10 to 15 percent."

By Tom Kertscher • June 17, 2012

Gwen Moore
stated on April 28, 2012 a song/speech:

Says Gov. Scott Walker approved a "gutting" of two tax credits that help the poor and elderly.

By Dave Umhoefer • May 10, 2012

Bill Haslam
stated on April 20, 2012 a speech to Carter County Republican Party:

"Personal income is growing faster in Tennessee on average than any other state in the country."

By Tom Humphrey • April 27, 2012

Sheila Oliver
stated on April 19, 2012 an interview on WOR-AM:

Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.

By Erin O'Neill • April 25, 2012

Americans for Prosperity: New Jersey
stated on October 24, 2011 a television ad posted on YouTube:

Says state Senate President Stephen "Sweeney gave us the nation's highest income tax rates, driving out jobs."

By Erin O'Neill • October 31, 2011

Steve Moore
stated on February 2, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains."

By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011

Gwen Moore
stated on December 15, 2010 an interview with a weekly newspaper:

"I represent the fourth-poorest (congressional) district" in the nation.

By Tom Kertscher • January 3, 2011

Michael Murphy
stated on November 5, 2010 comments made during adoption of Milwaukee's 2011 city budget:

"Mequon and Milwaukee have the highest disparity of income in the country."

By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2010

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