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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 a business roundtable in New Hampshire
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015
Tyrone Brooks
Tyrone Brooks
stated on January 20, 2015 a statement
State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015
Henry Sanders
Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015
George Nee
George Nee
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before R.I. House Labor Committee
Rhode Island "is one of the worst states" for income equality.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2015
Leonidas Raptakis
Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before the House Committee on Labor
The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015
Nicholas Mattiello
Nicholas Mattiello
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "10 News Conference"
"There haven't been tax cuts for the rich" in Rhode Island.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2015
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 a tweet
"Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 1, 2015
Terry Jeffrey
Terry Jeffrey
stated on January 21, 2015 a column in TownHall.com
There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 13, 2015 his book, "American Dreams"
"If people work and make more money, they lose more in benefits than they would earn in salary."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • January 14, 2015
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on November 14, 2014 a radio interview
"According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood."
False
By Katie Mulvaney • December 14, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on November 19, 2014 an announcement.
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • December 1, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on November 9, 2014 a TV interview
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • November 27, 2014
Anne Nolan
Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on October 24, 2014 a speech
"One-hundred times as many people worked their way from poverty into the American middle class" during his presidency compared to Ronald Reagan's presidency.   
Mostly False
November 7, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 a meme on social media
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.
Mostly True
By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on October 7, 2014 a U.S. Senate debate
Four million women have fallen into poverty in the last six years.  
Mostly False
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 15, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 13, 2014 a debate
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • October 14, 2014
William Benson Huber
William Benson Huber
stated on September 28, 2014 an op-ed in the "New York Post"
The non-profit group Feeding America is lying when it claims "that one in five kids is fighting starvation daily" in the United States.    
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on September 11, 2014 a TV ad
Says Scott Walker cut "taxes for the wealthiest" and raised taxes "on 140,000 Wisconsin families."  
Half-True
September 25, 2014
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