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Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on August 26, 2014 in a debate:
"The pension fund in the city of Providence is only 30 percent funded, about the same level as when he [Taveras] took office."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2014
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on August 25, 2014 in a web post.:
"The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 25, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2014 in a meme on social media:
"In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on July 13, 2014 in a debate on WPRI-TV:
Rhode Island's state pension system "underperformed the median three out of the four years that Mr. [Frank] Caprio was in office."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 3, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on July 29, 2014:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support "a national minimum wage." 
Mostly True
By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 22, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
"(Mary) Burke’s company," Trek Bicycles, "makes 99% of their bikes overseas."
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By Dave Umhoefer • July 28, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 in a letter to taxpayers:
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 in an op-ed for Huffington Post:
"The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • June 24, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on June 18, 2014 in a speech:
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • June 18, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 in a tweet:
Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 20, 2014
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
stated on March 2, 2014 in an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards:
Says 21 million people "still suffer slavery today."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • March 3, 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."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on February 11, 2014 in a floor debate.:
"There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family."
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By Nancy Madsen • February 24, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2014 in a speech:
"Most folks’ wages haven’t gone up in over a decade."  
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By Tom Kertscher • February 23, 2014
Daniel Harrop
Daniel Harrop
stated on December 15, 2013 in an appearance on WPRI-TV's Newsmakers:
"We see a quarter-billion dollars in a pension fund that needs to be funded at $1.2 billion."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 9, 2014
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 4, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"If you have a union job, you're making on average $950 a week. If you have a non-union job, you're making $750 a week."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of the Union address:
"The federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan" gave his first address to a joint session of Congress.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 29, 2014
Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 in a CNN interview:
"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 15, 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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"There are many studies that indicate" that the longer people get unemployment insurance, "it provides some disincentive to work."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
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