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Latest Fact-Checks On Jim Webb

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Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 12, 2015 a web post:
"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • August 24, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 a web post.:
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on December 3, 2014 a conference.:
The U.S. has "5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population."
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By Sean Gorman • December 15, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on November 19, 2014 an announcement.:
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • December 1, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on September 23, 2014 a speech.:
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 19, 2014
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on May 14, 2012 an interview.:
President Obama budget request for veterans is "more than double the amount in constant dollars appropriated in 1980, when the veterans population was larger by a third."
True
By Sean Gorman • June 4, 2012
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on November 4, 2011 a TV interview.:
"Ronald Reagan raised the national debt 18 times."
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By Sean Gorman • November 12, 2011
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on February 3, 2011 a committee hearing.:
The war in Iraq was a major factor in blowing "the top off the price of oil." 
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • February 14, 2011