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Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Jim Webb
stated on August 12, 2015 in a web post:

"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."

By Sean Gorman • August 24, 2015
Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 in a web post.:

"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."

By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015
Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015
Jim Webb
stated on December 3, 2014 in a conference.:

The U.S. has "5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population."

By Sean Gorman • December 15, 2014
Jim Webb
stated on November 19, 2014 in an announcement.:

The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."

By Sean Gorman • December 1, 2014
Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 in a speech.:

In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."

By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2014
Jim Webb
stated on May 14, 2012 in an interview.:

President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third."

By Sean Gorman • June 4, 2012
Jim Webb
stated on November 4, 2011 in a TV interview.:

"Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times."

By Sean Gorman • November 12, 2011
Jim Webb
stated on February 3, 2011 in a committee hearing.:

The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing "the top off the price of oil."

By Jacob Geiger • February 14, 2011