“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
What PolitiFact found
A 2021 annual measurement by one liberal think tank shows a 399-to-1 ratio. An AFL-CIO study found a somewhat lower ratio, and all such comparisons can be tricky due to stock options.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator, I-Vt.) made this claim around 17 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2023-09-17/segment/01
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