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Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on November 9, 2014 in a TV interview:
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
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By Katie Mulvaney • November 27, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 in 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.
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By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 13, 2014 in a debate:
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty."
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By Steve Contorno • October 14, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 in 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."
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By Steve Contorno • September 18, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on September 3, 2014 in a campaign web page:
"57% of the jobs created" in Austin "from 2009 to 2013 do not pay families a living wage."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 in a meme on social media:
"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014
Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 in a speech to the Florida Press Association:
Florida has the "third most-regressive tax" structure.
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By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2014
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 in a speech.:
"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."
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By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 in 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."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on May 6, 2014 in a forum:
The Wisconsin school voucher program "has no research that shows that it’s going to improve student learning."
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By Tom Kertscher • May 28, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 4, 2014 in 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."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 10, 2014
Steven Rattner
Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 in 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."
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By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 in a Facebook post:
"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 in 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."
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By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014
Maxey Scherr
Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 in an interview:
"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 in 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 in a speech:
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 6, 2014 in a video:
"In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty."
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By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2014
James Carville
James Carville
stated on December 8, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on December 8, 2013 in an interview on ABC’s "This Week":
"About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2013
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