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Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 in a campaign event in North Carolina:
Project 2025 would “end Head Start.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Mia Penner • July 23, 2024
Lisa Subeck
stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.”
True
By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 26, 2023 in Twitter:
Infertility is treated differently than other issues and “often excluded from insurance coverage”
True
By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023
Mark Pocan
stated on August 27, 2021 in Twitter:
End of eviction moratorium means “millions of Americans” could lose their housing in the middle of a pandemic.
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By D.L. Davis • September 3, 2021
Jennifer Boysko
stated on January 18, 2021 in a committee debate.:
“The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.”
True
By Warren Fiske • January 28, 2021
Shelia Stubbs
stated on March 12, 2019 in a public forum:
“Wisconsin (has) the highest infant mortality rate for black babies nationwide.”
True
By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
stated on December 17, 2018 in a speech:
New York has passed “the best paid family leave” program in the United States of America.
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 7, 2019
David Lewis
stated on June 1, 2017 in a tweet:
“The waiting list for Pre-K is over in the House budget.”
True
By Will Doran • June 6, 2017
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 15, 2016 in a speech:
“Latinos are 17 percent of our country’s population but hold only 2 percent of its wealth.”
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 19, 2016
Donna Howard
stated on August 23, 2016 in a press conference by Austin Democrats:
Child care costs “in some states now exceed the average price tag for college tuition.”
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 in x:
Says Alex Jones “said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.”
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By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016
Paul Ryan
stated on January 9, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:
“Today, if you were raised poor, you’re just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2016
Julián Castro
stated on July 27, 2015 in his year-in-review speech:
“Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription.”
True
By Bradley Saacks • August 20, 2015
Don Beyer
stated on June 15, 2015 in a website post:
“More than half of women under 30 who give birth do so outside of marriage…”  
True
By Sean Gorman • June 22, 2015
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on March 2, 2015 in a presentation to the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group:
“More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid.”
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 19, 2015
The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 in article:
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are “legal refugees” could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.    
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015
Seth Magaziner
stated on April 13, 2014 in 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.”
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2014
National Partnership for Women & Families
stated on April 8, 2014 in a news release:
“Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent.”
True
By Dana Tims • April 10, 2014
Rob Portman
stated on March 8, 2014 in a Republican weekly address:
“The average family (is) now bringing home $4,000 less than they did just five years ago.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2014
Terry McAuliffe
stated on January 13, 2014 in a speech.:
“Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.”
True
By Nancy Madsen • February 17, 2014
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