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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 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 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 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 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 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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