Has Obama given up false statistics about women?

Published January 21, 2015 5:18pm ET



President Obama included neither of his or the Left’s favorite statistics about women during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. He did not claim that 1 in 5 women will be raped during their college years, and while he made a passing reference to women earning less than men, he made no mention of the 23-cent wage gap.

For years, Obama and Democrats have continually claimed that women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. The president even included the number in his 2014 and 2013 State of the Union addresses (he made only a passing reference to equal pay in his 2012 address).

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