“Says that in South Bend, Ind., the "black poverty fell by more than half on my watch.”
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate. in an interview with The Root. Claim dated 9 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 9 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 December 2019, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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- Washington Post: Three Pinocchios“We cut the black poverty rate by more than half.”