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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa
The United States is "the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa
Says income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.
True
By Joshua Gillin • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 comments at the Iowa Democratic debate
500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."
Mostly True
By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 28, 2015 a speech.
The Koch Brothers are "spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties" in the 2016 elections.
False
By Sean Gorman • November 6, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 28, 2015 comments on Twitter.
"Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 a speech.
"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • September 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."
True
By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 web site
"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."  
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 16, 2015 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country."
False
By Will Cabaniss • August 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 1, 2015 a speech
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
Mostly True
July 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 a rally in Portland, Maine
For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 5, 2015 an interview on CNN
"We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth."
Mostly False
July 8, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"We are the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2015 a post on Twitter
"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Miles Adair • June 18, 2015
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