“When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’”
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Claim dated 31 Jul 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
This claim spread on social media around 31 July 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 August 2019, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/01/transcript-night-second-democratic-deb…
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