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Latest Fact-Checks On Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on April 7, 2019 in a speech:
Says Chicago’s reduction in teen smoking over the last eight years is the "largest drop in the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 14, 2019
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on September 25, 2018 in remarks at an event:
Says three research universities "came out and said (CPS is) the best public school system in the United States of a major urban system."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 5, 2018
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 28, 2018 in a television interview:
"Chicago is experiencing right now the highest employment since 1950."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 9, 2018
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on January 9, 2018 in a talk radio appearance:
"Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city."
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 22, 2018
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on October 18, 2017 in a speech:
"And over the last six years, Chicago’s economy has grown faster than the economies of New York City, Washington, D.C., or the national average."
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • October 20, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 31, 2017 in a press conference:
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • August 14, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on November 15, 2016 in Interview with Bill Kurtis :
[Chicago is the] only city in the United States, you get a B average in high school, community college is free.
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • December 28, 2016
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 26, 2016 in a press event:
Chicago Public Schools "lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system," "match the United States of America in kids graduating high school going on to a four-year college," and are "producing eighth-grade leaders in the country in math gains, fourth-grade leaders in reading gains."
Mostly True
By Madeleine Doubek • August 25, 2016
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on April 2, 2013 in a CNN interview:
Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A."
True
By Becky Bowers • April 9, 2013
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on September 2, 2012 in an appearance on Meet the Press:
Says Mitt Romney asked for a waiver from federal welfare rules.
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • September 6, 2012
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
"If the Republicans were the majority, (Rep. Barton) would have actually the gavel and the chairmanship."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 23, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 21, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on January 18, 2009 in a news interview:
"We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2009