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PolitiFact’s video rewind for Sept. 16

By Sean Nelson
September 16, 2016

Each week, we’ll recap some of our most important fact-checks from the 2016 campaign trail. 

This week, we look at a claim about Hillary Clinton’s health records and an assertion by Donald Trump that his opponent has no proposals to improve child care.

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Vicky Hartzler
stated on October 9, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
“Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs.”
True
Roy Blunt
stated on September 4, 2015 in at the Missouri State Fair:
“The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070.”
True

PolitiFact’s video rewind for Sept. 16




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