“No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage. And if you’re making less than $15 an hour, you’re living below the poverty wage.”
What FactCheck.org found
Not everyone earning less than that would be below the federal poverty guidelines or lifted above the guidelines with $15-an-hour pay.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 5 February 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 February 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
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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