The Latest from PolitiFact Oregon Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

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Says a group "estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion."

Says "Having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in the political combat harkens back to why the statute a hundred years ago said that they were prohibited."

Says "At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under Affordable Care Act.

Says  "With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project."  

Says, "Oregon has the third largest class size in the nation."

Says "we allow more people into America legally than all other countries on the planet combined."

Says, "In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended."

Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world."

Says "Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect."

Says "The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one."

Metro on whether it could use bond money for restoration.

Says that in 2007, "Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data."

Says "Every legislative district in the state has at least one craft brewery and countless home brewers."

Says "If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDC’s statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S."

Says "a pack-a-day smoker who quits because of the tax increase will save about $1,650 a year."

Says Oregon’s high minimum wage is the reason why "by 2011, Oregon's restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the state's minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997."

Says "A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S."

Says "I've authored the first bipartisan tax reform bill in a quarter-century."  

Says "$1,100 of the tuition paid by every Oregon university student annually goes just to pay the costs of PERS."

Says "PPS employees have paid their own PERS contributions for many years."

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