“In the 2000s, mortgages had become so complex, "they had a one in five chance of costing a family their home.”
Elizabeth Warren
Democratic senator from Massachusetts. At a rally in Brooklyn. Claim dated 7 Jan 2020.
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In short
Elizabeth Warren (Democratic senator from Massachusetts) made this claim around 7 January 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 January 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “Correct”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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