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Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice

“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”

By Sean Na • March 10, 2020

Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech

Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 a public forum

“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”

By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 2020

Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 5, 2020 a CNN town hall

“We have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020

E. Gordon Gee
stated on June 21, 2019 a speech

"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."

By Steven Murphy, Victoria Gennuso • December 6, 2019

Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet

"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."

By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."

By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate

"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"

By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019

Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 a hearing

"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post

"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."

By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019

Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2019 a press release

The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."

By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on May 22, 2019 an interview on CBS's "Late Show with Stephen Colbert"

"In America today, women on average are paid 80 cents on the dollar of what men are paid for the same work."

By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2019

Ron Johnson
stated on May 6, 2019 a tweet

"99.4% of businesses in Wisconsin are small businesses," and they employ "nearly half of our workforce."

By Eric Litke • May 7, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 a rally

"The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. It’s never been this low before, ever, ever, ever."

By Mica Soellner • May 2, 2019

Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 a comment in a newspaper article

Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."

By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall

"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet

"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019

E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed

West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."

By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019

Jason Smith
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet

Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."

By Olivia Garrett • February 21, 2019

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