“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”
Joe Biden
President. Claim dated 5 Feb 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Experts on wages say that in addition to hourly wages, other factors affect whether a household lives in poverty, including expenses for child care and housing.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 5 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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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