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Erin Lynch
Erin Lynch
stated on June 11, 2014 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate:
"The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2014
Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on May 10, 2014 a speech:
"$3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2014
Robert Malin
Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 a TV interview:
"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 9, 2014 a roundtable discussion on "Fox News Sunday":
"Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2014
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • December 15, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2013 a Facebook posting:
"Since 1988, Congress has raised its own salary 15 times 'to reflect rising costs.' But raised the minimum wage only three times."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 2, 2013
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on May 14, 2013 a radio interview.:
Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • May 28, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 a fundraising letter:
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
Mostly False
By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
Carolyn Medeiros
Carolyn Medeiros
stated on February 18, 2013 a radio interview:
"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 3, 2013
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 7, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on September 25, 2012 a campaign commercial:
Brendan Doherty wants "to repeal Obamacare, increasing drug prices for seniors."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 30, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on April 17, 2012 a news release:
Women "earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same position."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
John Stemberger
John Stemberger
stated on October 20, 2011 a website:
The largest number of gamblers are "from the poorest segments of the population."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 18, 2011
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on March 4, 2011 a post on his PAC's website:
Says it’s a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2011
Texas Veterans Commission
Texas Veterans Commission
stated on December 5, 2010 a newspaper article.:
Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 1, 2011
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on September 9, 2010 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren":
Rhode Island gives undocumented pregnant women health insurance, plus a cash card "with $400 a month on it" and "$250 a month or $275 a month to spend on food."
Mostly False
By Cynthia Needham • September 19, 2010
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 28, 2009 a chain e-mail:
A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • October 28, 2009
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