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

"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.:

"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019, than in the year 1850..."

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019

Shelia Stubbs
stated on March 12, 2019 a public forum:

"Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide."

True

By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2019

Kaye Kory
stated on April 15, 2019 radio interview.:

"Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It’s around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years."

False

By Warren Fiske • April 2, 2019

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on February 6, 2019 a tweet:

"We have more women in the workforce than ever before."

Half-True

By Samantha Patrick • March 27, 2019

Mary Elizabeth Coleman
stated on January 23, 2019 a speech at a General Laws Committee hearing:

A girl’s "life expectancy is seven years after entering into prostitution."

False

By Madison Conte • February 27, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 a policy announcement on Medium:

"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet:

"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019

Christine Lagarde
stated on December 9, 2018 an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation:

"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • December 12, 2018

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on November 12, 2018 a television interview:

"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."

Mostly True

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 16, 2018

stated on October 4, 2018 a website:

Says Rep. Martha McSally "has repeatedly tried to limit women’s access to birth control, and she even cosponsored a bill to make contraception more expensive for women."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • October 19, 2018

Taylor Swift
stated on October 7, 2018 an Instagram post:

Says Marsha Blackburn "voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 9, 2018

Marsha Blackburn
stated on September 25, 2018 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:

Under Phil Bredesen, in sexual harassment cases, his administration chose "to shred some of the documents so that women’s voices would never be heard."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 2018

Mike DeWine
stated on August 22, 2018 a TV ad:

"While Richard Cordray was Attorney General, 12,000 rape kits like Allyssa's were left untested. Cordray's failure left serial rapists free to strike again. Then Mike DeWine became Attorney General. He tested all 12,000 rape kits. Now hundreds of rapists are behind bars."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • August 30, 2018

Kelda Helen Roys
stated on July 19, 2018 a TV ad:

"In Wisconsin, abortion is still a crime."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • July 25, 2018

Lupe Valdez
stated on May 7, 2018 an online survey:

"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 14, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 an interview on "Fox & Friends":

"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018

Tina Smith
stated on April 10, 2018 a tweet:

"On average, American women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2018

Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 13, 2018 remarks at a rally:

"Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners."

True

By Dan Clark • March 16, 2018

Jason Isaac
stated on February 1, 2018 a voters guide from the League of Women Voters of Texas and League of Women Voters Austin Area:

Says abortion is "the leading cause of death for black Americans and kills as many as 1,000 black children every day."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 2, 2018

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