“Very few … if any” states have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.”
Joe Manchin
U.S. Sen., D-W.Va.. an interview on ABC's "This Week". Claim dated 7 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Twenty-one states have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — more than 40% of states.
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In short
Joe Manchin (U.S. Sen., D-W.Va.) made this claim around 7 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2021, 52 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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