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Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:

In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview:

Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":

"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on June 2, 2014 in a TV interview.:

The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year."

False

By Warren Fiske • June 9, 2014

Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on June 8, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Only one out of 10 minimum wage workers today are teen age or a young person."

False

By Katie Sanders • June 8, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on June 2, 2014 in a TV commercial:

Ken "Block supports Obamacare."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 8, 2014

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on June 3, 2014 in a radio ad:

"Sen. McConnell says it's not his job to bring jobs to Kentucky."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • June 6, 2014

John Boehner
stated on June 2, 2014 in a post on his website:

New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."

False

By Steve Contorno • June 2, 2014

Democratic National Committee
stated on May 29, 2014 in an email blast:

Rick Perry doesn’t think there should be a federal minimum wage.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2014

Dawson Hodgson
stated on May 27, 2014 in a radio commercial:

Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator’s] arms to vote for deals like this."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 30, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2014 in a meme on social media:

"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014

Angel Taveras
stated on May 12, 2014 in a fundraising letter:

I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 25, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on May 6, 2014 in a report:

The Obama administration spent "$205,075 in ‘stimulus’ funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2014

Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 19, 2014 in an interview on "PBS Newshour":

"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • May 22, 2014

Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 in a TV interview:

"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."

Mostly False

By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014

Jim Francesconi
stated on April 15, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash."

False

By Dana Tims • May 16, 2014

Ken Paxton
stated on May 11, 2014 in a news story:

Dan Branch "once lobbied for the AFL-CIO."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2014

Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union.":

The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."

Mostly True

By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on April 6, 2014 in a television interview:

The Pell bridge "is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2014

Charles Schumer
stated on May 5, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC:

If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, "you get out of poverty."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2014

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