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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

By Tom Kertscher • 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

By Tom Kertscher • 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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