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Latest Fact-Checks In Poverty

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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 16, 2012 a debate in South Carolina:
Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.
False
By Molly Moorhead • January 19, 2012
Theresa Price
Theresa Price
stated on December 10, 2011 a speech during a rally on homelessness:
"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 20, 2011
Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers
stated on November 30, 2011 an interview:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making voting more difficult by closing Department of Motor Vehicles offices where "low-income voters" live.
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 7, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 18, 2011 a debate in Las Vegas:
The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 19, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on September 24, 2011 a chain e-mail:
"Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!"
False
By Becky Bowers • September 30, 2011
Doreen Costa
Doreen Costa
stated on August 10, 2011 a radio interview:
"The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money"
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 4, 2011 a radio interview on WFLA-AM 970:
"There was no panhandling when I left office."
False
By Lee Logan • January 21, 2011
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 15, 2010 an interview with a weekly newspaper:
"I represent the fourth-poorest (congressional) district" in the nation.
False
By Tom Kertscher • January 3, 2011
Leslie Curran
Leslie Curran
stated on May 13, 2010 a city council meeting:
Tarpon Springs takes its homeless to St. Petersburg.
False
By Michael Van Sickler • July 9, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 a campaign commercial:
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2010
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