Statements about Income

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Mostly True

A wide gap exists

Sanders

"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, July 18th, 2019

Half-True

True as of 2017, but there's a new minimum wage now

Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 21st, 2019

Half-True

Claim based on one survey that differs from others

Newman

"We’re in a situation right now where 80% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, April 28th, 2019

Half-True

His phrasing is problematic

Buttigieg

"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, April 5th, 2019

Mostly True

Not just bias at play

Scott

"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019