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Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on August 26, 2014 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."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2014
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on August 25, 2014 a web post.
"The United States is the only industrialized country that does not guarantee paid time off to care for a new child."
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By Sean Gorman • August 25, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2014 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on July 13, 2014 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." 
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By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 22, 2014 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 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 an op-ed for Huffington Post
"The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave."
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By Steve Contorno • June 24, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on June 18, 2014 a speech
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.
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By Dave Umhoefer • June 18, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 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 an acceptance speech at the Academy Awards
Says 21 million people "still suffer slavery today."
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By Steve Contorno • March 3, 2014
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 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."
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By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on February 11, 2014 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 a speech
"Most folks’ wages haven’t gone up in over a decade."  
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February 23, 2014
Daniel Harrop
Daniel Harrop
stated on December 15, 2013 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."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 9, 2014
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 4, 2014 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 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.
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By Steve Contorno • January 29, 2014
Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 a CNN interview
"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."
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By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
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