Fact Check Posts – Page 11

Monica Wehby
stated on July 9, 2014 in an economic issues statement:

The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act "would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads."

By Dana Tims • July 11, 2014

Jeff Merkley
stated on July 9, 2014 in an economic issues statement:

"I co-sponsored the Rebuild America Jobs Act" for transportation and infrastructure.

By Dana Tims • July 11, 2014

Joe Zepecki
stated on June 23, 2014 in an interview:

The Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary.

By Tom Kertscher • July 6, 2014

John Boehner
stated on June 25, 2014 in an op-ed for "USA Today":

"The nearly six-year delay in approving Keystone is costing Americans more than 100,000 jobs."

By Steve Contorno • June 26, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on June 2, 2014 in a TV interview.:

The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year."

By Warren Fiske • June 9, 2014

Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on June 8, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Only one out of 10 minimum wage workers today are teen age or a young person."

By Katie Sanders • June 8, 2014

John Boehner
stated on June 2, 2014 in a post on his website:

New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."

By Steve Contorno • June 2, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2014 in a meme on social media:

"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014

Jim Francesconi
stated on April 15, 2014 in a campaign website statement:

"Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash."

By Dana Tims • May 16, 2014

Ken Paxton
stated on May 11, 2014 in a news story:

Dan Branch "once lobbied for the AFL-CIO."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2014

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on April 6, 2014 in a television interview:

The Pell bridge "is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2014

Senate Majority PAC
stated on March 13, 2014 in a campaign ad:

Says the Koch brothers want to "protect tax cuts for companies that ship our jobs overseas."

By Steve Contorno • April 11, 2014

Kenneth Block
stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV interview:

Under a bill before the legislature, "you’d have to go to court to fire an employee."

By John Hill • March 10, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2014 in a response to the State of the Union address:

Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on November 19, 2013 in a new book:

"We are experiencing the worst economic recovery America has ever had."

By James B. Nelson • December 11, 2013

Joseph Henchman
stated on November 19, 2013 in hearing testimony:

"Only 25 percent of what people buy is subject to Rhode Island’s sales tax."

By John Hill • December 1, 2013

Kenneth Block
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on Rhode Island Public Radio:

Rhode Island's unemployment insurance system "is the most expensive such system in the country."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 17, 2013

Julie Parrish
stated on October 2, 2013 in a House floor speech:

"West Linn has one of the highest per capita rates of home-based businesses in the United States."

By Dana Tims • October 31, 2013

Rick Kriseman
stated on October 15, 2013 in in a mayoral forum:

"Since Mr. Foster's been mayor, we have less small businesses in the city of St. Petersburg."

By Julie Kliegman • October 17, 2013

Suzanne Bonamici
stated on October 12, 2013 in an opinion piece. :

Says "nearly 30,000" federal employees in Oregon were furloughed during the government shutdown.

By Ian K. Kullgren • October 17, 2013

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