Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Thomas Perez
stated on June 18, 2016 an interview.

"If you are a member of union, your median weekly income is roughly $200 more than if you are a nonunion member, and that doesn’t include benefits."

By Sean Gorman • June 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech in Raleigh, NC

"Thanks to (North Carolina’s) governor and the legislature, the average teacher salary can barely support a family."

By Will Doran • June 28, 2016

Clay Aiken
stated on June 12, 2016 a posting on Twitter

"A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 24, 2016 an Instagram post

"Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014."

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2016 a tweet

Says "Elizabeth Warren lied when she says I want to abolish the Federal Minimum Wage."

By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2016

Chris Koster
stated on April 22, 2016 a tweet

"Closing our state’s wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women."

By Conner Smith • May 18, 2016

Joe Roman
stated on April 25, 2016 a Plain Dealer article

Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is "the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country."

By Nadia Pflaum • May 9, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 an Orlando debate

"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."

By Joshua Gillin • May 3, 2016

Kiki Curls
stated on April 4, 2016 following a Missouri Senate Budget Committee hearing

Missouri "is the state with the lowest paid workers."

By Conner Smith • May 2, 2016

Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight"

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 a TV ad

Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 a speech.

"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."

By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 12, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com

Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."

By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2016 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 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 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

Martin O'Malley
stated on January 14, 2016 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

Charlotte Nash
stated on November 17, 2015 a statement

Since 2008, Gwinnett County’s population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.

By Nancy Badertscher • December 11, 2015

Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 an opinion column

"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa

"Wages adjusted for inflation haven’t risen since the turn of the last century."

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015

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