Occupy Wall Street Scorecard true 0% 2 Checks mostly true 0% 3 Checks half true 0% 3 Checks mostly false 0% 3 Checks false 0% 3 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 4 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Occupy Wall Street Facebook posts stated on December 31, 2014 in a meme circulated on Facebook: Milwaukee "incarcerates 1.2% of white men" and has "incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s." January 15, 2015 National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on June 17, 2013 in a press release: Michelle Nunn has praised the Occupy movement. By Eric Stirgus • July 2, 2013 Government is Not God PAC stated on September 23, 2012 in a newspaper ad: "Barack Hussein Obama will ... force local authorities to allow Occupy protesters to live in parks." By Becky Bowers • September 26, 2012 Facebook posts stated on July 2, 2012 in on the Internet: "In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker." By Louis Jacobson • July 3, 2012 Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2012 in a Facebook post: "Bank of America could create 878,300 jobs with benefits if they spent their 2010 bonuses on job creation." By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2012 Michael Doherty stated on December 9, 2011 in a news release: "Following the catastrophic, cascading collapse of major investment banks on Wall Street in 2007.....Nobody was prosecuted, no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented." By Bill Wichert • December 19, 2011 Facebook posts stated on November 17, 2011 in Facebook: 1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires. By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2011 Vincent Fort stated on October 29, 2011 in a newspaper column: "If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it." By Eric Stirgus • November 8, 2011 Occupy Providence stated on October 19, 2011 in a protest sign: "Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour." By Lynn Arditi • October 26, 2011 Facebook posts stated on October 23, 2011 in an Internet post: Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but "zero on job creation." By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2011 Kasim Reed stated on October 17, 2011 in statements to the public: On letting Occupy Atlanta protesters stay in Woodruff Park. By Willoughby Mariano • October 24, 2011 Occupy Wall Street stated on October 5, 2011 in a sign at an Occupy Wall Street protest: "94 percent of winning candidates in 2010 had more money than their opponents." By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2011 Sam Adams stated on October 13, 2011 in in a press conference: Says "There are now Occupy Wall Street camps in hundreds of cities across the United States." By Janie Har • October 15, 2011 Alan Grayson stated on October 10, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show": "According to Wikipedia, there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth." By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2011 Occupied Wall Street Journal stated on October 5, 2011 in an article: "More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty." By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2011 Facebook posts stated on October 10, 2011 in postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites: Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1. By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2011 Matthew Rothschild stated on October 4, 2011 in an interview: U.S. unemployment among people ages 16 to 24 is "18.4 percent, which is a 60-year high." October 10, 2011 Michael Moore stated on September 28, 2011 in an interview on "Democracy Now": "Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008." By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 7, 2011 Bernie Sanders stated on October 4, 2011 in an interview with MSNBC: "Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America." By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2011 Load More Latest Articles No articles to show. Latest promises about Occupy Wall Street No promises to show. Latest promises about Occupy Wall Street
