Latest Fact Checks By Erin O'Neill

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Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage claims his city has lowest unemployment rate among large New Jersey cities

January 27, 2012
"Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey."
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Lou Greenwald claims governor’s proposed income tax cut benefits millionaires more than middle-class families

January 22, 2012
"Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation."
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Chris Christie touts accomplishments in video previewing State of the State address

January 17, 2012
Says "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."
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Sheila Oliver says 16 states prohibited interracial marriage in 1958

January 15, 2012
"In 1958, there were 16 states in this country that prohibited -- prohibited -- an African-American and a Caucasian from being married."
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Frank Pallone says on Twitter that Republicans have controlled the House for a year, with no new jobs

January 13, 2012
"One year today since #GOP took control of the House" and "no new jobs."
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Ronald Rice claims Newark schools are funded largely by local property taxes

January 10, 2012
Says in Newark "we’re paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes."
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Chris Christie repeats misleading statistic on Newark’s high school graduation rate

January 5, 2012
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."
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Steve Lonegan says with New Year’s Day toll hike, New Jersey motorists face most expensive tolls in the U.S.

January 2, 2012
"New Jersey taxpayers … will now face the highest tolls in the country."
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Cory Booker says U.S. spends more than 17 percent of gross domestic product on health care costs

December 25, 2011
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."
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Congressional Republican group claims Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is “the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance”

December 22, 2011
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is "the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this."
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Rush Holt says the U.S. had more than twice as much debt in 1944 as it does now

December 18, 2011
Says in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now."
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