Latest Fact-Checks In Poverty

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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 15, 2014 an ad
Under his leadership, more people in Wisconsin "have access to health care."
Half-True
May 7, 2014
Seth Magaziner
Seth Magaziner
stated on April 13, 2014 an appearance on “10 News Conference”
"In Rhode Island today, 25 percent of our households either don't have a bank account at all, or they have a bank account and they're still relying on high-cost financial services like payday loans, pawn shop check cashing and so on."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2014
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 4, 2014 a radio interview
When Republicans last controlled the presidency and Congress, "the number of people on food stamps (and) the number of people in low-income housing went through the roof."  
Mostly True
April 10, 2014
Steven Rattner
Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 a Facebook post
"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2014 a meme on the Internet
The percentage of black children born without a father in the home has risen from 7 percent in 1964 to 73 percent today, due to changes from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 3, 2014 a report issued by the House Budget Committee Republican staff
"Over the past three years, ‘deep poverty’ has reached its highest level on record."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2014
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
stated on February 4, 2014 a hearing.
"In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage, could actually support a family of three above the poverty line. Today, that same worker would earn less than the poverty line for a family of two."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2014
Maxey Scherr
Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview
"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2014 public statements
On expanding Medicaid as part of the health care law
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • February 25, 2014
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
stated on February 16, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Two-thirds of the people who start out in minimum wage are above the minimum wage within a year."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • February 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on February 7, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown."
"Six people in Florida die as a result of (not expanding Medicaid) every day."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 12, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 9, 2014 a roundtable discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
"Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2014
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on January 12, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
"Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women."
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2014 a Facebook post
"Unemployment insurance kept more than 620,000 children out of poverty in 2012."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
stated on November 18, 2013 remarks at Southern Obesity Summit
Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.
True
By Sue Owen • January 7, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 6, 2014 a video
"In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2014
Teresa Ghilarducci
Teresa Ghilarducci
stated on December 15, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Up"
"A quarter of our workers make $18,000 per year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 23, 2013
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