“I do think that we should have a minimum wage, stand by itself, $15 an hour and work your way up to the — it doesn’t have to be boom. And all the economics show, if you do that, the whole economy rises.”
Joe Biden
President. in an interview with Norah O’Donnell of CBS News. Claim dated 5 Feb 2021.
Washington Post rated thisTwo Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Biden is bullish on a big increase in the minimum wage, but economists are sharply divided on the impact on jobs.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 5 February 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 February 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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