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Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate:
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • April 1, 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."    
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Caleb Rowden
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."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 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. 
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
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."  
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015
Jeb Bush
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."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015
Bernie Sanders
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015
Cornell William Brooks
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."
Mostly True
By Christian Belanger • June 25, 2015
Eugene Robinson
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."
Mostly True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
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."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
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."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015
Jalen Ross
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."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2015
Erika Sanzi
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."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • March 15, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary:
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Barack Obama
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2014
Glenn Beck
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.  
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • December 22, 2013
Jeff Merkley
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."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • June 18, 2012
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