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Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate

"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."

By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016

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."

By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016

Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 a Columbia/Boone County League of Women Voters Town Hall

"Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation."

By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami

"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016

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.

By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.

"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.

By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 web site

"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."

By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 a Telemundo News interview

Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."

By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 a rally in Portland, Maine

For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015

Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on Face the Nation

"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."

June 25, 2015

Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."

By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015

James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."

By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 11, 2015 an interview on PBS

"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."

By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech at Texas Southern University

"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."

By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015

Jalen Ross
stated on March 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"

"Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white name resume."

By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2015

Erika Sanzi
stated on March 5, 2015 a newspaper commentary

"Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color."

By Katie Mulvaney • March 15, 2015

Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary

"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."

By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on February 27, 2014 an event at the White House

"Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men."

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2014

Glenn Beck
stated on December 19, 2013 comments on his radio program

To comply with non-discrimination laws, the government is "forcing people in business to make wedding cakes" for anyone.

By Katie Sanders • December 22, 2013

Jeff Merkley
stated on June 12, 2012 a press release

Says, "Less than half of all states have legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, despite the fact that LGBT Americans report employment discrimination and unemployment at much higher rates than the U.S. average."

By Janie Har • June 18, 2012

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