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Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on February 23, 2015 a Facebook post
"In general, it appears" Wisconsin’s right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.
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February 27, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages
"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015
Ernest Almonte
Ernest Almonte
stated on October 5, 2014 an interview on WLNE's "On the Record"
"I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2014
American LeadHERship PAC
American LeadHERship PAC
stated on October 8, 2014 a TV commercial
"As mayor, [Allan Fung] raised taxes three times."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 14, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 22, 2014 a campaign TV ad
"(Mary) Burke’s company," Trek Bicycles, "makes 99% of their bikes overseas."
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By Dave Umhoefer • July 28, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 a letter to taxpayers
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 16, 2014 a speech at the New America Foundation
"Canadian middle class incomes are now higher than in the United States. They are working fewer hours for more pay, … living longer on average, and facing less income inequality."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2014
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
stated on March 2, 2014 an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards
Says 21 million people "still suffer slavery today."
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By Steve Contorno • March 3, 2014
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on February 11, 2014 a House floor speech
"According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 21, 2014
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on February 4, 2014 a news release
"The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary."  
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February 14, 2014
Daniel Harrop
Daniel Harrop
stated on December 15, 2013 an appearance on WPRI-TV's Newsmakers
"We see a quarter-billion dollars in a pension fund that needs to be funded at $1.2 billion."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 9, 2014
Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 a CNN interview
"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."
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By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014
Vicki Shabo
Vicki Shabo
stated on December 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "The Cycle"
"About 40 percent of workers don’t ... have a single paid sick day."
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By Katie Sanders • December 17, 2013
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on October 21, 2013 a fundraising letter.
"Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent" about it than the state.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2013
Family Forward Oregon
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."
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By Janie Har • May 18, 2013
Ed FitzGerald
Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 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."
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By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on February 2, 2013 a campaign rally
"We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut."
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By Bill Wichert • February 14, 2013
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 a press conference in Trenton
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
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By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
MacIver Institute
MacIver Institute
stated on October 25, 2011 a video
Says some Wisconsin state employee contracts "gave some employees $4 for bringing in their own lunch."
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November 2, 2011
Dave Yost
Dave Yost
stated on October 2, 2011 a newspaper column
"The city of Columbus would save $41 million a year if employees had to contribute to their own, guaranteed-check pensions."
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By Henry J. Gomez • October 19, 2011
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