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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."

By Allison Graves • March 14, 2017

Janet Cruz
stated on March 7, 2017 a speech

"Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average."

By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2017

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.

February 17, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • February 16, 2017

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."

By Miriam Valverde • February 14, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on December 14, 2016 a speech

"California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas."

By Chris Nichols • December 19, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2016

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."

By Linda Qiu • October 7, 2016

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."

By Dan Clark • September 16, 2016

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."

By Taylor Leighton • August 12, 2016

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."

By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016

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.

By Lauren Carroll • July 26, 2016

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."

By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016

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."

By Sarah Hauer • June 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 an advertisement

"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016

Chris Koster
stated on April 22, 2016 a tweet

"Closing our state’s wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women."

By Conner Smith • May 18, 2016

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."

By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks

"We got a million jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate

"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."

By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016

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