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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich.:
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2016 in a news conference:
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 in a video:
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in a PBS Democratic debate:
"In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:
"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."    
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By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 24, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press.":
Says his views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's. 
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By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 24, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Donald Trump "thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 19, 2016 in a town hall in Underwood, Iowa:
"I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA."
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By Katie Sanders • January 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in comments at the Iowa Democratic debate:
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
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By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.:
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 in the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
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By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate:
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 28, 2015 in comments on Twitter.:
"Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC."
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By Linda Qiu • September 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 in a speech.:
"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 in web site:
"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."  
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By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 1, 2015 in a speech:
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 in a rally in Portland, Maine:
For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2015 in a post on Twitter:
"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."
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By Louis Jacobson, Miles Adair • June 18, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 11, 2015 in an interview on PBS:
"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015
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