“Real wages "went up last year 1.1%.”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. During the sixth Democratic debate, in Los Angeles.. Claim dated 19 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 19 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “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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