“Today in America — a new study came out — 20 years out, whites who borrowed money, 94% of them have paid off their student loan debt; 5% of African-Americans have paid it off.”
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. senator, D-Mass; 2020 presidenetial candidate. In a debate. Claim dated 20 Nov 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Elizabeth Warren (U.S. senator, D-Mass; 2020 presidenetial candidate) made this claim around 20 November 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 November 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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