Elizabeth Egan

Elizabeth Egan

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Elizabeth Egan is a reporter with PolitiFact New York and a student at St. Bonaventure University. She has been a staff writer at the Bona Venture, an editor at HerCampus, and an intern for Physician Outlook magazine.

eganea20@bonaventure.edu

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Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 in a news release:
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Lee Zeldin
Lee Zeldin
stated on April 12, 2022 in a tweet:
“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”
True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • May 6, 2022
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on April 1, 2022 in a press release:
In 2021, “11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • April 27, 2022
Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 in an op-ed:
“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”
Mostly False
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 29, 2022
Jamaal Bowman
Jamaal Bowman
stated on January 26, 2022 in a tweet:
“More white legacy students get admitted to top universities than Black & Latinx students admitted through affirmative action.”
Half-True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 7, 2022
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