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Hillary Clinton
stated on May 18, 2015 in an appearance in Mason City, Iowa:

Hedge fund managers "pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 in a video:

Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015

Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 in video:

Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.

Mostly False

By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"99 percent of all new income today (is) going to the top 1 percent."

Mostly True

By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on April 14, 2015 in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

"We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery."

True

By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 in a talk in Austin:

"Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2015

Starbucks
stated on March 20, 2015 in a newspaper advertisement:

"White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth."

True

By Tom Kertscher • March 31, 2015

Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 in a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on February 6, 2015 in a speech:

Six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties, "according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area."

True

By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2015

George Nee
stated on February 5, 2015 in testimony before R.I. House Labor Committee:

Rhode Island "is one of the worst states" for income equality.

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2015

Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 in testimony before the House Committee on Labor:

The minimum wage has risen $2.35 in the last two years. That's 31 percent.

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2015

Don Beyer
stated on February 4, 2015 in a speech.:

"If you look at the income of average Americans...they’re absolutely flat in constant dollars since 1979."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • February 9, 2015

Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 in a tweet:

"Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 1, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 in an interview with Fox News:

"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."

Mostly True

By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015

Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 13, 2015 in a news release:

Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • January 25, 2015

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 in a speech at the AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages:

"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2015

Glenn Hegar
stated on January 2, 2015 in speaking to reporters:

The "average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":

The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."

False

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2014

Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN:

The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014

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