Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 a town hall in Nashua, N.H.:

"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 1, 2015 a speech:

"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2015

Tim Lee
stated on June 30, 2015 mass email:

Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.

By Nancy Badertscher • July 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 a rally in Portland, Maine:

For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 a written statement.:

"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.

By Warren Fiske • July 13, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech:

"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."

By Tom Kertscher • July 8, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2015 a post on Twitter:

"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."

By Louis Jacobson, Miles Adair • June 18, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 a news conference:

The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."

By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:

Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015

Bill Gates
stated on May 17, 2015 an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS":

The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."

By Jon Greenberg • May 17, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."

By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview:

"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015

Maggie Hassan
stated on February 12, 2015 her budget address:

Our median household income in 2013 was the highest in the nation.

By Casey McDermott • February 13, 2015

Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 the 2015 State of the County address:

In the past year, DeKalb has "attracted and retained more than 2,300 jobs."

By April Hunt • February 13, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit:

"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2015

Nathan Deal
stated on January 13, 2015 a press release:

Mercedes-Benz USA moving its headquarters to Atlanta will create at least 800 jobs.

By April Hunt • January 26, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:

"Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis."

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2015 remarks in Clinton, Tenn.:

"Factories are opening their doors at the fastest pace in almost two decades."

By Lauren Carroll • January 20, 2015

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