Fact Check Posts – Page 2

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2014

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."

By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2014

Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 a TV interview

"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."

By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2014

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."

By Julie Kliegman • December 15, 2013

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 2, 2013

Mark Warner
stated on May 14, 2013 a radio interview.

Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.

By Nancy Madsen • May 28, 2013

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."

By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 3, 2013

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 7, 2013 an interview on MSNBC

"Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high."

By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2013

David Cicilline
stated on September 25, 2012 a campaign commercial

Brendan Doherty wants "to repeal Obamacare, increasing drug prices for seniors."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 30, 2012

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 24, 2012

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."

By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011

John Stemberger
stated on October 20, 2011 a website

The largest number of gamblers are "from the poorest segments of the population."

By Amy Sherman • November 18, 2011

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2011

Texas Veterans Commission
stated on December 5, 2010 a newspaper article.

Says one out of three U.S. homeless men is a veteran.

By W. Gardner Selby • January 1, 2011

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."

By Cynthia Needham • September 19, 2010

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.

By Catharine Richert • October 28, 2009

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