“On state minimum wages: "There’s very few, I would think if any, are at $7.25.”
Joe Manchin
U.S. senator. ABC's "This Week". Claim dated 7 Mar 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
There are 21 states where the minimum wage is effectively $7.25 an hour
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. senator) made this claim around 7 March 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Manchin has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-21-sen-joe-manchin-gov-mike/story?id=7630…
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