Fact Check Posts – Page 9

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."

By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016

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."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee

"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."

By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

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."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 the State of the Union address

We have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 a press release

California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."

By Chris Nichols • December 7, 2015

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.

By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015

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."

By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015

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."

By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015

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."

By Sean Gorman • September 21, 2015

Club for Growth
stated on September 15, 2015 a TV ad in Iowa

Says Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.

By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2015

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."

By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015

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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 a town hall in Nashua, N.H.

"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015

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."

July 29, 2015

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