A crude, limited analysis that misses the point
"Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, May 27th, 2016
No matter how you count, the answer is still zero
"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
Toward the bottom, but not last
Missouri "is the state with the lowest paid workers."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Evidence isn't conclusive
"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Thursday, April 21st, 2016
He was one voice in the workers' struggle
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Adjusting for inflation, it was never that high
Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Top 1 percent isn't getting "almost all" new income
Americans "are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Timing is everything
"While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
They have risen -- but only a tiny amount
"Wages adjusted for inflation haven’t risen since the turn of the last century."
— PolitiFact National on Saturday, November 14th, 2015
Cherry-picking time
"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, February 20th, 2015
Some do, some don't
Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, January 25th, 2015
Dealbreaker for some, way down the list for others
"Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
A deep dive into the numbers
"Over the last few years, we’ve put more people back to work than all the other advanced economies combined."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Opposed law, procedural vote
Says Scott Brown "voted to reward" companies "to ship jobs overseas."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 31st, 2014
More to it than that
Says Scott Walker "gave $6 million in tax breaks to a corporation and told them that they can keep that money even if they lay off half their workforce."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Perhaps in the nation, but not in Florida
"The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs."
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, October 10th, 2014
Yes, but the difference may not mean much
"The states that have raised the minimum wage (this year) have had faster job growth than the states that haven’t raised the minimum wage."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 9th, 2014
N.C. is actually in the bottom quarter of states
In North Carolina, "now we're near the national average" for unemployment.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Wage gap narrows when you account for purchasing power
Countries with a higher minimum wage than the United States’ $7.25 an hour include Denmark at $21, Australia at $15.81, Germany at $11 and France at $12.35.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 26th, 2014
Ad has a point, but overreaches
Says Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst "would privatize Social Security."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 21st, 2014