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Latest Fact-Checks In Wealth

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
 "99 percent of all new income today (is) going to the top 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 in a talk in Austin:
"Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015
Starbucks
Starbucks
stated on March 20, 2015 in a newspaper advertisement:
"White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth."
True
By Tom Kertscher • March 31, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 23, 2015 in a Tweet:
"From 2013-2015, the richest 14 Americans increased their net wealth by more than $157 billion, yet the Republican budget would not require these Americans to contribute one penny to deficit reduction."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • March 27, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 6, 2015 in a speech:
Six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties, "according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2015
Nicholas Mattiello
Nicholas Mattiello
stated on January 18, 2015 in an interview on "10 News Conference":
"There haven't been tax cuts for the rich" in Rhode Island.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 13, 2015 in a news release:
Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • January 25, 2015
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on November 14, 2014 in a radio interview:
"According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • December 14, 2014
Ernest Almonte
Ernest Almonte
stated on October 5, 2014 in an interview on WLNE's "On the Record":
"I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on October 8, 2014 in a TV ad:
Under Scott Walker's "tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 16, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on August 15, 2014 in A campaign ad:
Says Mitch McConnell voted "three times for corporate tax breaks that send Kentucky jobs overseas."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 12, 2014
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
stated on August 31, 2014 in a direct-mail piece:
"Scott Walker has given a $10,000 tax deduction to millionaires who send their kids to exclusive private schools."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 31, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on August 20, 2014 in a campaign ad:
Says Thom Tillis "gives tax breaks to yacht and jet owners."
False
By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on August 15, 2014 in a campaign ad:
Says of Mitch McConnell, "What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 25, 2014
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 29, 2014 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century when I took office."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 29, 2014
Erin Lynch
Erin Lynch
stated on June 11, 2014 in a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate:
"The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 28, 2014 in comments on his radio show:
"Some of the wealthiest Americans are African-American now."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 29, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on April 13, 2014 in an appearance on “10 News Conference”:
"In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 in a Facebook post:
"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014
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