“Last year, South Carolina spent $21,756 per prison inmate and $11,552 per student.”
Bernie Sanders
Sen., I-Vt.. social media. Claim dated 26 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Bernie Sanders (Sen., I-Vt.) made this claim around 26 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 August 2019, 1 day 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.
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