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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 5, 2016 a speech in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage."
True
By Will Doran • July 8, 2016
Thomas Perez
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."
True
By Sean Gorman • June 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
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."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • June 28, 2016
Clay Aiken
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."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 20, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2016 a tweet:
Says "Elizabeth Warren lied when she says I want to abolish the Federal Minimum Wage."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2016
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on April 22, 2016 a tweet:
"Closing our state’s wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women."
Mostly True
By Conner Smith • May 18, 2016
Joe Roman
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."  
True
By Nadia Pflaum • May 9, 2016
Alan Grayson
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."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • May 3, 2016
Kiki Curls
Kiki Curls
stated on April 4, 2016 following a Missouri Senate Budget Committee hearing:
Missouri "is the state with the lowest paid workers."
Half-True
By Conner Smith • May 2, 2016
Lee Camp
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."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 a speech.:
"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
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."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
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."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 3, 2016
Martin O'Malley
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2016
Charlotte Nash
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.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 11, 2015
Kevin Russell
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."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015
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