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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 3, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:
Says his campaign has released his past tax returns.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 in a TV ad :
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 30, 2016 in a CNN interview:
Says his free public university tuition program "is paid for … by a tax on Wall Street's speculation."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 4, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 13, 2016 in an a television ad:
"Bernie Sanders passed more roll call amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member."
True
By Linda Qiu • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political ad for Bernie 2016:
"The Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs."  
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 22, 2016 in a campaign speech:
"Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 in a campaign rally.:
"The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people."
True
By Sean Gorman • March 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College:
When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Miami:
When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich.:
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2016 in a news conference:
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 in a speech.:
"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 28, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • February 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 in a video:
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in comments during the PBS Democratic debate:
The United States has "the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth."  
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in comments during the PBS Democratic debate:
"The African-American community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse."
True
By Linda Qiu • February 12, 2016
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