“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”
Mandela Barnes
Wisconsin Lt. Gov.. Claim dated 23 May 2021.
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Mandela Barnes (Wisconsin Lt. Gov.) made this claim around 23 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 June 2021, 27 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Mandela Barnes has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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