Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Jennifer Shilling
stated on May 11, 2016 in a teleconference:

Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average -- would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined."

By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on April 28, 2016 in an official announcement:

North Carolina has "one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country."

By Will Doran • April 29, 2016

William Barber
stated on April 22, 2016 in a speech announcing the Moral Monday march:

"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"

By Will Doran • April 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Dinesh D'Souza
stated on April 17, 2016 in a Facebook post:

"As a U.S. senator with salary and perks, ‪#‎Bernie‬ is in the top 1 percent, but still paid only 13 percent in taxes last year."

By Lauren Carroll • April 20, 2016

Jack Berry
stated on April 6, 2016 in a candidates forum:

Richmond teachers have not gotten a raise "for almost 10 years."

By Sean Gorman • April 18, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New York:

"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."

By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016

The Other 98%
stated on March 31, 2016 in a Facebook image:

"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 20, 2016 in a Hillary for America ad:

"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."

By Jason Noble, Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016

Todd Richardson
stated on January 10, 2016 in comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics":

Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."

By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2016 in a Hillary for America campaign ad:

"On average it takes 300 Americans working for a solid year to make as much money as one top CEO."

By Riley Snyder • February 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate on MSNBC:

Americans "are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 1, 2016 in a political ad:

"While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 24, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press.":

Says his views on reparations for slavery are the same as Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's.

By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2016

Martin O'Malley
stated on January 14, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on January 9, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

"Today, if you were raised poor, you’re just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago."

By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2016

Nikki Haley
stated on January 12, 2016 in the Republican response to the State of the Union address:

The economy is "too weak to raise income levels."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 in In a viral YouTube video:

A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.

By Clayton Youngman • December 7, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 in a tweet:

"From 2010-2014, median household income" in Wisconsin "has actually gone up 7.4 percent."

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • December 7, 2015

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