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Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 1, 2025 a Senate floor speech
"The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2025
Sara Jacobs
Sara Jacobs
stated on December 18, 2024 an X post
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2024
Tyler August
Tyler August
stated on May 3, 2024 Newsletter
“Nearly 90% of all UW graduates stay in Wisconsin 5 years after they graduate.”
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By Sophia Voight • May 15, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 13, 2024 a campaign ad
Under Joe Biden, there are “record numbers of new Black entrepreneurs.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2024
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 21, 2024 TV interview
"(The) top issue for college students is the economy."
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By Hope Karnopp • February 2, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2024 Speech
“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”
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By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Abigail Spanberger
Abigail Spanberger
stated on June 16, 2022 an op-ed.
“The four big meat packers are raking in record profits … ”
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By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 Twitter
“Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.”
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By Madeline Heim • June 2, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 an interview
“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”
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By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Lindsay James
Lindsay James
stated on May 11, 2021 a tweet
“There are more job openings than there are people on unemployment" in Iowa.
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By Lyle Muller • May 12, 2021
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 9, 2021 a statement
“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 22, 2021
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on January 9, 2021 Twitter
“It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 15, 2021
Kim Reynolds
Kim Reynolds
stated on January 7, 2021 a news conference
Before COVID-19, “more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history."
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January 11, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 25, 2020 a post on Facebook
Joe Biden “wants to get rid of something called ‘stepped up basis’” that reduces inheritance taxes.
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By Monique Curet • October 29, 2020
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on July 7, 2020 a TV segment
"Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2020
Sara Meaney
Sara Meaney
stated on May 24, 2020 a TV interview
“Since the week ending March 14, Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.”
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By D.L. Davis • June 12, 2020
Jack Whitver
Jack Whitver
stated on April 7, 2020 an email newsletter
Before COVID-19, “Iowa had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, and many employers were scrambling to find qualified employees to fill their job openings.”
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By Caleb McCullough • April 14, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
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By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on October 16, 2019 a Facebook post
Says a new annual report shows that "West Virginia’s tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent."
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By Darby Coughlin, Mackenzie Myers • December 17, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 9, 2019 Twitter
"Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low."
True
By Stefanie Pousoulides • July 16, 2019
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