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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2025 a Cabinet meeting
“The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on October 7, 2024 an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes"
"We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2024
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on September 27, 2024 an ad
When New Hampshire gubernatorial nominee Kelly Ayotte served on two companies’ boards, one “laid off 18,000 workers” and the other “laid off 1,200 American workers, moving jobs overseas.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 an interview with Time magazine
“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 28, 2023 a speech in Maine
"Wages are up after being adjusted for inflation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on May 22, 2023 his presidential announcement speech
“The share of working-age men choosing to work is the lowest it has ever been.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 remarks at the White House
“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023
Miguel Cardona
Miguel Cardona
stated on August 21, 2022 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Adjusted for inflation, over the last 25 years teachers have made a $29 increase in their salary."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2022
Greg Casar
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 an ad
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."
Half-True
February 10, 2022
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 3, 2021 Twitter
“President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 21, 2021
Kurt Bauer
Kurt Bauer
stated on June 27, 2021 TV interview
“We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 10, 2021
Amy Pechacek
Amy Pechacek
stated on December 20, 2020 News release
“We have reached our goal to clear the backlog of (unemployment) claims.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • March 17, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 an interview on CBS
“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 24, 2020 a speech in Dallas, Pa.
Says President Donald Trump "thinks that $15 an hour minimum wage is too much for essential workers."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 30, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2020 a Facebook post
“All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred.”
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 on social media
Says “Senator Joe Manchin hit (an) all time low saying seniors and the disabled did not need the relief package $1000 on Fox News.”
Half-True
By Patrick Orsagos • March 23, 2020
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on June 21, 2019 a speech
"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
Half-True
By Steven Murphy, Victoria Gennuso • December 6, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."  
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2019 a press release
The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2019
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