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Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 15, 2011 a television interview
"We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. We’ve got work that needs to get done. We’ve got people that want to go to work."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • October 6, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 30, 2011 a speech
"My home state since June of 2009 created 40 percent of the new jobs in America."
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By Eric Stirgus • October 4, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 an op-ed
"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 3, 2011
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on September 2, 2011 interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
Says 600,000 to 700,000 government workers have been laid off in the last year and a half
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By Erin O'Neill • September 12, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on August 22, 2011 campaign literature.
Takes credit for "substantially reducing the size of the state workforce."
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By Sean Gorman • September 3, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 17, 2011 interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression."
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By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2011
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2011 a television commercial
Since President Obama took office, "2 million jobs. Gone."
Mostly True
By Mark Naymik • July 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 a press conference
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 17, 2011 a statement
"Since I took office, we’ve created 76,800 jobs."
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By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on June 14, 2011 a speech.
"The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world."
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By Sean Gorman • June 18, 2011
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on April 19, 2011 a press release
"Creating 25 jobs in Umatilla County has the same impact as 500 jobs in the metro region."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 17, 2011
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on June 12, 2011 a radio ad
An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity.
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By James B. Nelson • June 12, 2011
Adam Hasner
Adam Hasner
stated on May 23, 2011 a tweet
"Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech in Cleveland
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
Mostly True
By Mark Naymik • April 28, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 18, 2011 his weekly radio address.
"According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 21, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 2, 2011 an interview with Fox News.
Says the high-speed rail project provides "short-term jobs."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
"We’ve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row."
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By Jacob Geiger • March 2, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • February 26, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."
Mostly True
By James McCarty • February 21, 2011
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