Latest Fact-Checks In Race and Ethnicity

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Lovely Warren
Lovely Warren
stated on April 8, 2020 a press conference
Racial comparisons on coronavirus statistics in Monroe County, N.Y., show that the impact on minorities is “basically on par, a little bit up, from the population numbers,” meaning that “we don’t see that disparity as much here.”
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By Michael Hogan, Sean Mickey • April 23, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 5, 2019 a Medium post
"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."
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By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2019
Michael Schirling
Michael Schirling
stated on October 2, 2018 Schirling to Boston.com Oct. 2, responding to an SNL skit
"We invite SNL viewers to Vermont to see all that we have to offer, including our increasingly diverse communities... The leaves are changing and so is Vermont."
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By Anne Wallace Allen • October 31, 2018
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 12, 2018 an interview
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."  
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February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2018 a tweet
"Because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"
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By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on January 16, 2018 an interview on CNN
"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."
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By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2018
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson
stated on August 2, 2017 a travel advisory
"African Americans in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be stopped and searched by law enforcement officers than caucasians."
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By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • September 18, 2017
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
stated on May 18, 2017 an appearance on CNN
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 2, 2016 a rally in Tempe, Ariz.
Says Donald Trump "says organized crime runs wild on reservations."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2016 a rally in Springfield, Ohio
"Nearly half of African-American children under the age of 6 are living in abject poverty."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va.
Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg." 
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015
Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik
stated on June 16, 2015 comments on CNN
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 18, 2015
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 29, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."
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By Katie Sanders • March 29, 2015
Henry Sanders
Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit
Hispanic students in Florida perform "the best" of any Hispanic population in the United States.
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By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2015
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on June 13, 2014 a "Real Time with Bill Maher" episode
"There are 278 Republicans in Congress. (With Eric Cantor's defeat), they are now all Christian and all white except for one black senator, who was appointed."
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By Katie Sanders • June 18, 2014
Pam Stewart
Pam Stewart
stated on August 19, 2013 a letter to the editor in the "Miami Herald"
Florida’s "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates."
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By Amy Sherman • August 23, 2013
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