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Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 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
Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 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
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2015 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
Jeb Bush
stated on April 14, 2015 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
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 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
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 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
Starbucks
stated on March 20, 2015 a newspaper advertisement
"White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth."
True
March 31, 2015
Henry Sanders
Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 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
Scott Walker
stated on February 6, 2015 a speech
Six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties, "according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area."  
True
March 2, 2015
George Nee
George Nee
stated on February 5, 2015 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
Leonidas Raptakis
stated on February 5, 2015 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
Don Beyer
stated on February 4, 2015 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
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 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
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 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
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 13, 2015 a news release
Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."
Half-True
January 25, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 7, 2015 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
Glenn Hegar
stated on January 2, 2015 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
Nicholas Kristof
stated on December 4, 2014 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
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 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
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on November 9, 2014 an interview
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.  
True
November 28, 2014
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