The code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network IFCN at Poynter is a series of commitments organizations abide by to promote excellence in fact-checking. The following fact checks come from IFCN fact checkers. (D. Van Zandt)
Claim by Kirsten Gillibrand: April 2 is “the day actually in the year when a woman has to work all last year and up until today to earn the same as a white man doing the same job.”
Claim by Donna Campbell: Abortion providers perform almost 60,000 procedures in Texas every year.
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
Claim by Pete 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.”
Claim by Julian Castro: Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it “decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal violations, rather than civil ones.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
Claim by Joshua Higginbotham: “Tens of thousands of jobs (are) created in West Virginia by the natural gas and oil industries.”
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