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Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event:
We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor.
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 26, 2024
Julie Su
Julie Su
stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference:
“400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • September 23, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 in TV interview:
“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
Simon Rosenberg
Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 in a post on X:
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 4, 2024 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":
Under President Joe Biden, “Black unemployment is the lowest in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:
“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 in a post on X:
“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”
Mostly True
By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 in a campaign ad:
Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 22, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 in a speech in Chicago:
Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Tim Michels
Tim Michels
stated on June 23, 2022 in Twitter:
“My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.”
Mostly True
By Kelly Smits • July 21, 2022
Zach Wahls
Zach Wahls
stated on May 31, 2022 in an end-of-year Senate Democrats newsletter:
“There are fewer Iowans working today than when Gov. Reynolds took office.”
Mostly True
By Lyle Muller • June 9, 2022
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 in Twitter:
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 in a speech in Howell, Mich.:
"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on August 18, 2021 in a speech.:
The Virginia Employment Commission is sixth in the nation for getting benefits to eligible people quickly…”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • September 7, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2021 in a speech.:
When Terry McAuliffe was governor, “Unemployment went down in every single county, including rural Virginia by nearly 50%.
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 in Facebook post:
The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 in a tweet:
Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”
Mostly True
By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 18, 2020 in a Democratic convention speech:
The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2020
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