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Patricia Farley
Patricia Farley
stated on March 14, 2017 a news conference in the Capitol:
"A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn't a man."
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By Allison Graves • March 14, 2017
Janet Cruz
Janet Cruz
stated on March 7, 2017 a speech:
"Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average."
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By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2017
Gordon Hintz
Gordon Hintz
stated on January 30, 2017 an interview:
"Eleven individuals who make over $30 million each got $22 million credit" from Wisconsin's manufacturing and agriculture tax credit.
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By Tom Kertscher • February 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 a press conference:
"The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world."  
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By Miriam Valverde • February 16, 2017
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on February 7, 2017 a Fox News interview:
Of 1 million green cards issued a year, "almost none of those green cards are based on job skills or demonstrated economic needs."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 14, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on December 14, 2016 a speech:
"California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas."
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By Chris Nichols • December 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2016 a rally in Atkinson, N.H.:
"Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 27, 2016 a campaign event in Fla.:
Says Hillary Clinton "promised, running for the Senate years ago, 200,000 jobs for upstate New York. ... Not only didn't they come, but they lost so many jobs."
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By Linda Qiu • October 7, 2016
Robert Duffy
Robert Duffy
stated on August 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Rochester Business Journal:
If upstate New York split from downstate "the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country."
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By Dan Clark • September 16, 2016
Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."
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By Taylor Leighton • August 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Says Donald Trump "believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
Funny Or Die
Funny Or Die
stated on July 25, 2016 a video shown at the Democratic National Convention:
Says Trump shirts are made in Bangladesh, Trump suits in Mexico, Trump Vodka in the Netherlands, Trump crystal barware in Slovenia and his cufflinks and ties in China.
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By Lauren Carroll • July 26, 2016
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
"We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:
"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 3, 2016 a tweet:
"Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin."
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By Sarah Hauer • June 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 an advertisement:
"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on April 22, 2016 a tweet:
"Closing our state’s wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women."
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By Conner Smith • May 18, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 a campaign rally speech:
"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."  
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By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:
"We got a million jobs."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate:
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
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By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016
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