(CNN) Welcome to CNN's reality check inclusion of the fifth Democratic presidential essential discussion. We will post our reality checks of the applicants' cases as we complete them.
Ten competitors shared the stage this time, down from 12 at the discussion in October.
Here's a glance at the realities around key minutes from today's discussion.
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Sanders on US social insurance spending
Sen. Bernie Sanders said the US has a social insurance framework "where we spend twice as much as do the individuals of some other nation."
Realities First: This isn't valid. The US spent twice as much per capita on social insurance a year ago than the normal for Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) nations, yet not twice as much as each and every one of the association's 35 different individuals.
At $10,586 per capita in 2018, US spending was well over twice the OECD average ($3,992) and well over double the figures for some other significant nations, including Canada ($4,974). Be that as it may, Switzerland ($7,317), Norway ($6,187) and Germany ($5,986) were all significantly above a large portion of the US level. Sweden ($5,447), Austria ($5,395) and Denmark ($5,299) were likewise above half, however more somewhat.
Sanders has been rehashing this misrepresentation since in any event 2009, when truth checkers at PolitiFact first noticed that it wasn't valid. CNN certainty checked him during the Democratic banter in September.
- Daniel Dale
Harris on Gabbard's Fox News appearances
In a warmed trade, California Sen. Kamala Harris said Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard "during the Obama organization invested four years full energy in Fox News" scrutinizing President Barack Obama.
Realities First: Harris' portrayal is misdirecting. Gabbard appeared on Fox News during the Obama organization, and regularly reprimanded the organization's Middle East approach. Be that as it may, she has showed up considerably more regularly on Fox News since Donald Trump got to work.
Gabbard showed up on Fox News in any event multiple times between January 2013, when she initially got to work, and January 2017 when President Obama left office. She regularly reprimanded the Obama organization yet principally with regards to Middle East strategy.
By correlation, Gabbard has showed up on Fox News unmistakably more as often as possible during the Trump organization, and since she declared her presidential crusade - showing up in any event multiple times in 2019 alone.
- Andrew Kaczynski
Yang on paid family leave
In light of an inquiry concerning kid care costs, Andrew Yang stated, "There are just two nations on the planet that don't have paid family leave for new mothers: the United States of America and Papua New Guinea."
Actualities First: It's valid that America positions behind all other major created countries with regards to statutory paid family leave. In any case, Yang's case that lone the United States and Papua New Guinea offer no paid family leave gives off an impression of being founded on a report that is over five years of age.
The United States is the main individual from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development that doesn't offer statutory paid family leave, as indicated by a report from August 2019.
A May 2014 report by the International Labor Organization indicated that out of 185 nations and regions that offer data on parental leave, just Papua New Guinea and the United States "have no broad legitimate arrangement for money benefits."
The Yang battle didn't promptly react to a solicitation for input on its sources.
- Anneken Tappe, with Dan Merica
Harris on childcare and maturing first-time guardians
During a trade about paid family leave, Kamala Harris said "it is not true anymore in America that individuals are having kids in their 20s. Individuals are having kids in their 30s, frequently in their 40s, which implies these families and guardians are regularly bringing up small kids and dealing with their folks."
Certainties First: While Americans are having youngsters later, by and large first-time guardians are in their late 20s.
The normal period of first-time moms is 26.8 years old, as indicated by 2017 data from the Centers for Disease Control. A New York Times study a year ago that utilizations 2016 data from the National Center for Health Statistics puts the age nearer at 26.3 years old. This is up from 24.9 years old in 2000 and 21.4 years old in 1970, agreeing to data from the CDC.
For fathers, the normal age at the hour of a kid's introduction to the world has ascended from 27.4 years old in 1972 to 30.9 years old in 2015, as per a Stanford University School of Medicine study using National Vital Statistics System information.
In any case, the periods of moms when they have their first youngsters differ distinctly dependent on geographic area, the Times study found - the normal time of first time moms was around 32 years of age in San Francisco County, California, contrasted with around 20 years of age in Todd County, South Dakota.
- Caroline Kelly
Buttigieg on help bundles for soybean ranchers
The Trump organization has guaranteed $28 billion in help bundles to assist ranchers with harming by President Donald Trump's exchange war with China. During a trade about whether to proceed with those appropriations, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg asserted that those installments aren't totally compensating for ranchers' misfortunes.
"Incidentally, this isn't in any event, making ranchers entire," Buttigieg said. "In case you're in soybeans, for instance, no doubt about it."
Actualities First: Buttigieg is right - however, while the President has stated the installments are an image of his help for ranchers, the Trump organization has said the program isn't intended to compensate for the whole misfortune a rancher is enduring a direct result of the exchange war.
Soybean ranchers, in particular, have been hit hard by Beijing's retaliatory levies. China was before the greatest fare showcase for American soybean producers, however arranges stopped when the taxes became effective in July 2018. The cost for soybeans dropped, and a record number was left away toward the finish of a year ago.
The organization discharged a first round of help in 2018, and afterward reported a second round this past summer as the exchange war proceeded.
"I don't think either the projects a year ago or this were ever planned or the projects a year ago or this were ever structured or vowed to make ranchers entire in regards to the exchange harms," said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on a phone call with columnists in July, when the second round of help was reported.
"This is actually an endeavor to perceive ranchers have borne an unbalanced portion of the exchange interruption and these assets are there to help them and empower them to keep cultivating, Perdue included.
- Katie Lobosco
