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Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN town hall on climate change:
"70% of the pollution of the carbon that we're throwing into the air comes from three industries."  
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By Jon Greenberg • September 6, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 27, 2019 in an op-ed in the Washington Post:
"We lag behind many other developed nations in connectivity and speed, while also paying more for that service."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
"The law says that mental health must be treated the same as physical health," but coverage by health insurers is unequal.
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By Mica Soellner • August 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium:
"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 in a policy proposal to ban private prisons:
"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall in New Hampshire:
Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."
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By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 27, 2019 in a policy paper posted on Medium:
Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 12, 2019 in a press release:
The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying "software updates are likely coming."    
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By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 7, 2019 in a tweet:
"Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 in a policy announcement on Medium:
"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 in a tweet:
"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:
With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 13, 2017 in a video:
"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."
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By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic convention:
"Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 26, 2016
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 28, 2016 in an interview on The View:
Says Donald Trump's position is "to roll back all" of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis.
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By Adam Thorp • July 5, 2016
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 26, 2015 in a speech:
Student loans from the federal government issued between 2007 and 2012 are on target "to produce $66 billion in profits for the United States government."  
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By Tom Kertscher • October 1, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 5, 2015 in remarks at the Institute for New Economic Thinking:
Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to "easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 14, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 in a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages:
"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 19, 2014 in an interview on "PBS Newshour":
"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • May 22, 2014
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