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Jason Carter
Jason Carter
stated on January 15, 2014 a speech:
The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.
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By Nancy Badertscher • January 23, 2014
Steven King
Steven King
stated on January 5, 2014 a TV interview:
"We’ve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector" at Quonset Business Park.
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By John Hill • January 22, 2014
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 15, 2014 a speech:
"(M)ore Georgians have jobs than at any other time since October 2008."
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By Eric Stirgus, Nancy Badertscher • January 21, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2014 a speech at North Carolina State University:
"For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world."
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By Julie Kliegman • January 17, 2014
Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Our economy still has three people looking for every job (opening)."
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By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on November 27, 2013 an email:
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2013
Jan Schakowsky
Jan Schakowsky
stated on November 12, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
The United States "has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP."
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By Steve Contorno • November 18, 2013
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on September 18, 2013 an episode of CNN's "Crossfire":
"One out of 10 minimum-wage workers in the U.S. live in Texas."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2013
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 27, 2013 a radio advertisement:
Says that "unlike Texas, Missouri has a perfect AAA credit rating."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 30, 2013
Susan Collins
Susan Collins
stated on August 3, 2013 a response to the president's Saturday address:
"This year, the overwhelming majority of new jobs are part time."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2013
Alan Krueger
Alan Krueger
stated on August 2, 2013 an interview with Bloomberg television:
"Since the Affordable Care Act passed, 90 percent of job growth has been in full-time positions."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on July 21, 2013 an appearance on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers" program:
"The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan office, did an analysis and said that passing comprehensive immigration reform will reduce the federal deficit by $200 billion over the next decade."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 1, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 24, 2013 a speech in Galesburg, Ill.:
"The income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, but the typical family’s incomes barely budged."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2013
Charlene Lima
Charlene Lima
stated on June 26, 2013 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House:
Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes "sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds" for 38 Studios.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 10, 2013
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2013 a tweet:
"Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of the people in the U.S."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 9, 2013 an advertisement:
"Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2013
Texas State Employees Union
Texas State Employees Union
stated on April 1, 2013 an organization web page.:
"Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 29, 2013
Ban the Box RI
Ban the Box RI
stated on March 20, 2013 a video posted on YouTube:
"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."
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By Michael McKinney • April 15, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 15, 2013 a tweet:
"Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion."
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By Tom Feran • March 21, 2013
Gary Sasse
Gary Sasse
stated on February 10, 2013 an appearance on 10 News Conference:
Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 24, 2013
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