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Kathy Hochul
stated on November 19, 2024 a public event

We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 26, 2024

Julie Su
stated on August 15, 2024 News conference

“400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.”

By Ricardo Torres • September 23, 2024

Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 28, 2024 an interview on Fox News Sunday

“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024

Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 TV interview

“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”

By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024

Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 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.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024

Donna Brazile
stated on February 4, 2024 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week"

Under President Joe Biden, “Black unemployment is the lowest in American history.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 a post on X

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023

Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 a post on X

“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”

By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 a campaign ad

Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."

September 22, 2023

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”

By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 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.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023

Tim Michels
stated on June 23, 2022 Twitter

“My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.”

By Kelly Smits • July 21, 2022

Zach Wahls
stated on May 31, 2022 an end-of-year Senate Democrats newsletter

“There are fewer Iowans working today than when Gov. Reynolds took office.”

By Lyle Muller • June 9, 2022

Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter

Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."

By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 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.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021

Ralph Northam
stated on August 18, 2021 a speech.

The Virginia Employment Commission is sixth in the nation for getting benefits to eligible people quickly…”

By Warren Fiske • September 7, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2021 a speech.

When Terry McAuliffe was governor, “Unemployment went down in every single county, including rural Virginia by nearly 50%.

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2021

Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 Facebook post

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021

Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 a tweet

Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”

By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020

Bill Clinton
stated on August 18, 2020 a Democratic convention speech

The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.

By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2020

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