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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 30, 2016 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 a PBS Democratic debate
"In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire
"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016
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