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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on March 6, 2016 an endorsement speech in Columbus, Ohio.:
When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, "there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now there’s a $2 billion surplus."
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By Chris Nichols, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Todd Richardson
Todd Richardson
stated on January 10, 2016 comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics":
Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."
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By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 a video:
"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 a PBS Democratic debate:
"In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 the Fox Business Network debate:
"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 the State of the Union address:
"The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 12, 2016 the Republican response to the State of the Union address:
The economy is "too weak to raise income levels."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 the State of the Union address:
We have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 a press release:
California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."  
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By Chris Nichols • December 7, 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.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman:
Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 comments on "State of the Union":
"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting:
Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention:
"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."  
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By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 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."
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By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on September 15, 2015 a TV ad in Iowa:
Says Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.  
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By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 an interview with Inc. magazine:
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
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