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Bryce Reeves
Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 a radio interview.
"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."
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By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016
Oxfam America
Oxfam America
stated on October 5, 2016 a tweet
"The world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2016
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention
"Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance program, which Hillary helped to start."
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By Taylor Leighton • August 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Says Donald Trump "believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
UN's UNICEF
UN's UNICEF
stated on July 6, 2016 an article on Medium
In South Sudan, "more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 25, 2016
William Barber
William Barber
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech announcing the Moral Monday march
"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"
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By Will Doran • April 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."
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By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016
Jerome Buting
Jerome Buting
stated on April 11, 2016 an interview
Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country."  
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April 20, 2016
Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on March 24, 2016 campaign website
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."    
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By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
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By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on March 8, 2016
"Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition."
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By Cassie Owens • March 18, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 a video
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 24, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press."
Says his views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's. 
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By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2016
Common Sense Kids Action
Common Sense Kids Action
stated on September 21, 2015 a press release
"California has more kids in poverty ... than virtually any other state."
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By Chris Nichols • December 4, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman
Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech
Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."
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September 2, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters
"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
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By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 a talk in Austin
"Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview
"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 a business roundtable in New Hampshire
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."
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By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015
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