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Claims from progressive media and activist circles
The 77-cent figure is real but describes the raw earnings gap between all full-time working men and women — not a comparison of equal work. When controlling for occupation, experience, hours, and education, the gap narrows significantly, though a smaller unexplained gap persists.
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The claim cites real data from a frequently referenced 2020 study, but it cherry-picks one dataset while ignoring conflicting federal data, fails to account for methodological limitations in tracking undocumented populations, and presents a contested academic finding as settled consensus.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data shows violent crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023 and 2024, including in border states and cities with large immigrant populations. No credible dataset supports the claim of an immigration-driven “crime wave.”