Latest Fact-Checks By Colin Deppen

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Scott Wagner

Scott Wagner says Pa.’s unemployment rate is 20 percent higher than the national rate. It isn’t.

October 18, 2018

"Our unemployment rate is 20 percent higher than the national average."   

Jeff Bartos

Lt. Gov. hopeful Jeff Bartos says the death penalty is a deterrent. Researchers disagree.

October 11, 2018

Capital punishment is a "specific deterrent with the most heinous crimes."

Lou Barletta headshot

Hazleton wasn’t half-Latino when Lou Barletta was re-elected mayor. He said it was.

June 12, 2018

"The city that I was mayor of was 50 percent Latino, and I won with 90 percent of the vote..." 

Rothfus, Kelly and Shuster

US losing one bank or credit union a day, but trend was in works before Dodd-Frank

May 31, 2018

"Since the end of the financial crisis, we have seen an average of one community bank or credit union disappear every day."

Scott Wagner

Pennsylvanians would only pay for a fraction of Gov. Tom Wolf’s severance tax

May 25, 2018

Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"

Paul Mango’s negative economic portrait of Pennsylvania is backed up

April 9, 2018

"Today, we (in Pennsylvania) have higher unemployment and lower job growth than most."

Wolf’s half-truth on the subject of shale taxes

March 30, 2018

"Pennsylvania (is) the only state in the country not to tax drillers."

Did Conor Lamb say very nice things about Trump? No

March 22, 2018

Says Conor Lamb "ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me."

Conor Lamb

Conor Lamb’s rejection of corporate PAC money needs context

March 17, 2018

Says he didn't take "corporate PAC money." 

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