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Mallory McMorrow
stated on May 28, 2026 in a Democratic primary debate:

"Michigan has spent more than $2.5 billion on incentives to companies since 2019, and so far, that fund, the SOAR fund, has created zero jobs."

By Caleb McCullough • June 4, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2026 in a speech to a Saudi investment conference:

“More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2026

Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting:

“The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2025

Kamala Harris
stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes":

"We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people."

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:

The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2024

Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC:

Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X:

"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:

“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024

Nicole Malliotakis
stated on July 14, 2023 in a radio interview:

“You can work at some McDonald’s in this country for more money than … signing up for the military.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 28, 2023

Tim Scott
stated on May 22, 2023 in his presidential announcement speech:

“The share of working-age men choosing to work is the lowest it has ever been.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2023

Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2023 in the State of the State speech:

"Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor."

By Aarón Torres • March 20, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on February 3, 2023 in a speech in Philadelphia:

“We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:

“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work needing unemployment benefits. Today, that number is under 1.6 million, the lowest in decades.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 in remarks at the White House:

“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on October 8, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The Biden administration has “created” more than double the number of jobs per month, on average, than any other administration going back to George H.W. Bush.

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2022

Cavalier Johnson
stated on May 27, 2022 in News conference:

The RNC is “a $200 million economic infusion into our communities.”

By Vanessa Swales • July 8, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2022 in his State of the Union address:

“Our economy created over 6.5 million new jobs just last year, more jobs in one year than ever before in the history of the United States of America.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2022

Ron Klain
stated on November 7, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The Biden administration inherited gains of “50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from Covid. That's now down 75%.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2021

Ron DeSantis
stated on October 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The nation reported adding 194,000 jobs in September, and Florida accounted for 84,500.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:

“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021

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