Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Jorge Elorza
stated on November 9, 2014 a TV interview

"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."

By Katie Mulvaney • November 27, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 a meme on social media

Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.

By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 13, 2014 a debate

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty."

By Steve Contorno • October 14, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 a Facebook graphic

"There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment."

By Steve Contorno • September 18, 2014

Steve Adler
stated on September 3, 2014 a campaign web page

"57% of the jobs created" in Austin "from 2009 to 2013 do not pay families a living wage."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 a meme on social media

"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014

Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association

Florida has the "third most-regressive tax" structure.

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2014

Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech.

"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."

By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014

Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate

In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on May 6, 2014 a forum

The Wisconsin school voucher program "has no research that shows that it’s going to improve student learning."

May 28, 2014

Glenn Grothman
stated on April 4, 2014 a radio interview

When Republicans last controlled the presidency and Congress, "the number of people on food stamps (and) the number of people in low-income housing went through the roof."

April 10, 2014

Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."

By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014

Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 a Facebook post

"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 a hearing.

"In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two."

By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014

Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview

"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014

Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."

By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech

Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on January 6, 2014 a video

"In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty."

By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2014

James Carville
stated on December 8, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."

By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2013

Rob Portman
stated on December 8, 2013 an interview on ABC’s "This Week"

"About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2013

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