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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 13, 2024 a campaign ad:
Under Joe Biden, there are “record numbers of new Black entrepreneurs.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 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.”
True
By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 8, 2022 Twitter:
"Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men."
True
By D.L. Davis • December 16, 2022
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on March 15, 2022 a tweet.:
“Virginia women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to Virginia men.”
True
By Warren Fiske • March 18, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 Twitter:
“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”
True
By Madeline Heim • June 19, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on June 8, 2021 Twitter:
“We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.”
True
By Laura Schulte • June 18, 2021
Mark Born
Mark Born
stated on June 2, 2021 Twitter:
“Before the pandemic, just over 40,000 were on continuing UI claims. Now, there are well over 100,000 on state or federal UI benefits.”
True
By D.L. Davis • June 18, 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.”
True
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.
True
By Lyle Muller • May 12, 2021
Jennifer Boysko
Jennifer Boysko
stated on January 18, 2021 a committee debate.:
“The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.”
True
By Warren Fiske • January 28, 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.”
True
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."
True
By Sarah Watson • January 11, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles:
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor
stated on May 21, 2019 a tweet:
"We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years.
True
By D.L. Davis • June 4, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 a rally:
"The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. It’s never been this low before, ever, ever, ever."
True
By Mica Soellner • May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall in New Hampshire:
Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2019
Daniel Riemer
Daniel Riemer
stated on February 17, 2019 a TV interview:
"About 80 percent of (the manufacturing and agriculture) tax credit goes to claimants who are making $1 million or more."  
True
By Mica Soellner • April 4, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed:
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
True
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on November 9, 2018 a tweet:
"In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses."
True
By Titus Wu • November 19, 2018
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner
stated on August 27, 2018 a tweet:
"Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Walmart 'increased their starting wage to $11/hr & has given about $400 million in bonuses.'"
True
By Hannah Archambault, Matthew Hall • October 5, 2018
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