Latest Fact-Checks In Poverty

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Leticia Van de Putte
stated on August 29, 2014 a press release

"Our men and women of the Guard have been forced to contact food banks to feed themselves."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • September 19, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 a Facebook graphic

"There is no state in the U.S. where a 40-hour minimum wage work week is enough to afford a two-bedroom apartment."

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • September 18, 2014

Steve Adler
stated on September 3, 2014 a campaign web page

"57% of the jobs created" in Austin "from 2009 to 2013 do not pay families a living wage."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2014

Larry Elder
stated on August 20, 2014 comments on CNN

"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."

False

By Derek Tsang • September 2, 2014

Moms Rising
stated on August 5, 2014 a tweet

"Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty spells in the United States."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2014

Oxfam Ireland
stated on July 22, 2014 an info-graphic tweet

Women "own just 1 percent of the world’s land."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • August 5, 2014

Paul Ryan
stated on July 25, 2014 an interview

Twenty percent of single adults, ages 21 to 25 with no kids, "are not working or even in school trying to find a job."

False

July 30, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2014 a meme on social media

"97 percent of the 100 poorest counties in America are in red states."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2014

Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association

Florida has the "third most-regressive tax" structure.

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2014

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show"

The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2014

Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech.

"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014

Charlie Crist
stated on July 2, 2014 a tweet

"Expanding Medicaid would create 63k jobs."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • July 9, 2014

David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the state convention of the Texas Democratic Party

Says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • July 2, 2014

Erin Lynch
stated on June 11, 2014 a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island Senate

"The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2014

Nan Rich
stated on May 10, 2014 a speech

"$3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2014

Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate

In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2014 a meme on social media

"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on May 6, 2014 a forum

The Wisconsin school voucher program "has no research that shows that it’s going to improve student learning."

Mostly True

May 28, 2014

Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 a TV interview

"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."

Mostly False

By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014

Charles Schumer
stated on May 5, 2014 an interview on MSNBC

If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, "you get out of poverty."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2014

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