Latest Fact-Checks In Income

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Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 a news release
 "Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available."
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By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013
National Women's Law Center
National Women's Law Center
stated on September 21, 2012 press release
"In every state, women are paid less than men."
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By Janel Davis • October 1, 2012
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on April 13, 2012 a video press release
"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."
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By Erin O'Neill • April 23, 2012
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on February 13, 2012 a town hall-style meeting
"The top 1 percent (of income earners) paid 36.7 percent (of the taxes).  ... The top 50 percent pay 97.7 percent."  
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By Sabrina Eaton • March 6, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on January 17, 2012 a press release
"Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation."
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By Erin O'Neill • January 22, 2012
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 15, 2011 a news release
"The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent."
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By Peter Krouse • January 19, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 20, 2011 speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
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By Maryalice Gill • November 18, 2011
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on October 10, 2011 an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"
"According to Wikipedia, there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 2, 2011 a television interview
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."
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By Tom Feran • August 22, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on February 28, 2011 an op-ed column.
Says taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2011
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