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Tennessee Republican Party
stated on May 23, 2018 in a Republican party blog post:

"While Phil Bredesen was in the governor’s office, the number of Tennesseans on unemployment nearly doubled."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 29, 2018

Bruce Rauner
stated on May 11, 2018 in a policy forum:

"There’s more union jobs growing in Texas, which is a right-to-work state, than in Illinois, and factory workers make more money in Texas than they do in Illinois."

Half-True

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 24, 2018

Steve Adler
stated on May 8, 2018 in an interview on KLBJ-AM:

Says Austin is "creating more jobs than any other city in the country."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018

Adam Putnam
stated on May 5, 2018 in a Republican candidate forum:

"Welders are coming out of their tech schools at $28 an hour" and "pipefitters are making six figures."

Half-True

By Allison Graves • May 10, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":

"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018

James Tedisco
stated on April 13, 2018 in a blog post :

After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state "reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure."

True

By Dan Clark • April 26, 2018

Charles Schumer
stated on April 16, 2018 in a news release from Senate Democrats:

In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on April 4, 2018 in a tweet:

"Our bold reforms have Wisconsin’s unemployment rate down to an all-time LOW of 2.9 percent, and the number of people working at an all-time HIGH!"

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • April 18, 2018

Tina Smith
stated on April 10, 2018 in a tweet:

"On average, American women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2018

Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 in a statement on the state budget:

This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"

False

By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018

Alex Mooney
stated on March 25, 2018 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:

"From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018

Joe Manchin
stated on March 21, 2018 in a tweet:

Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2018

Noah Smith
stated on March 7, 2018 in a Bloomberg View column:

"Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily."

True

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2018

Good Jobs First
stated on March 6, 2018 in a tweet:

Oklahoma teachers "are the poorest paid teachers in the US, in a state that gives nearly $500 million in tax handouts to energy companies."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2018

Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on December 21, 2017 in radio interview:

"We have roughly between 85,000 (and) 95,000 open jobs in Wisconsin."

Half-True

By Eric Litke • February 23, 2018

Stacey Evans
stated on January 26, 2018 in campaign website:

Georgia "has the lowest minimum wage in the country."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • February 5, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in the 2018 State of the Union address:

"Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2018 in a tweet:

"Because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018

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

Donald Trump
stated on January 16, 2018 in a speech at a women's event in Washington:

"Chrysler is leaving Mexico and moving back to Michigan."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 2018

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