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James Carville
James Carville
stated on December 8, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"One-third of all bank tellers (are) on public assistance."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on December 8, 2013 an interview on ABC’s "This Week"
"About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2013
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on November 4, 2013 a campaign speech
"We have created new jobs here in Cranston -- more than 1,000."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 10, 2013
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 25, 2013 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
The average fast food worker is 29, and most fast food workers "are on some form of public assistance."
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By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 18, 2013 an interview on CNN's "Crossfire"
"Ninety-five percent of all the wages in Texas are above minimum wage."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech in Galesburg, Ill.
The minimum wage is "lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2013
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on June 1, 2013 an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program
"People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 23, 2013
Family Forward Oregon
Family Forward Oregon
stated on May 8, 2013 a flier
Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world."
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By Janie Har • May 18, 2013
Ed FitzGerald
Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 a campaign speech
"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."
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By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 a Facebook posting
"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."
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By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 the State of the Union address
Says he and Mitt Romney agreed on tying minimum wage increases to inflation.
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By Molly Moorhead • February 14, 2013
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 24, 2012 a Huffington Post column
Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.
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By Katie Sanders • December 6, 2012
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 23, 2012 a Republican U.S. Senate debate in Houston
Says David Dewhurst "explicitly advocated" a guest worker program for all illegal immigrants.
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By Sue Owen • July 26, 2012
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on June 12, 2012 a press release
Says, "Less than half of all states have legal protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, despite the fact that LGBT Americans report employment discrimination and unemployment at much higher rates than the U.S. average."
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By Janie Har • June 18, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on June 6, 2012 a fundraising letter.
Virginia women earn "only 79 cents to each dollar earned by men..."
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By Nancy Madsen • June 15, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 18, 2012 radio interview
"About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now."
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By Katie Sanders • April 27, 2012
Matthew Rothschild
Matthew Rothschild
stated on October 4, 2011 an interview
U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is "18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high."
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October 10, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics
"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
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By John Gregg • October 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 a press conference
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
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