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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2018 a tweet
"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing for you but get your vote!"
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2018
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on November 13, 2017 a tweet
"Check out the record of #jobs created by #TaxCuts 7.8 million new jobs after Bush’s 2003 tax cuts 12 million new jobs after Kennedy's 1964 tax cuts 14.8 MILLION new jobs after Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts in 1981."
Mostly False
By Emma Diltz • December 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 29, 2017 a speech in St. Charles, Mo.
Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state."
False
By Lucille Sherman • December 15, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on December 8, 2017 a statement released by her office
"Even with full control of the House, Senate and White House, Republicans have still failed to deliver on their promise of higher wages for working families."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 6, 2017 a cabinet meeting
"We’re … getting into the pool of the 100 million people that are not working. That pool is now coming back."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 15, 2017 a video ad posted on his campaign website
"The Texas unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in 40 years & Texas led the nation last month in new job creation."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2017
Eric Holcomb
Eric Holcomb
stated on October 24, 2017 a campaign ad
"We’re growing union jobs faster than Illinois."
True
By Matt Dietrich • November 3, 2017
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 an op-ed
"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."
True
By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on October 18, 2017 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
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 4, 2017 a video
"Job creation fell by 70 percent in Wisconsin in 2016" under Scott Walker.  
Mostly True
October 18, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on August 27, 2017 an email
"Black Americans still earn less than 73 percent of what white men make."
Half-True
By Eric Litke • October 4, 2017
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on September 19, 2017 a conversation with reporters
New York has "the biggest outmigration of citizens of any state."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • September 29, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2017 a speech to the United Nations General Assembly
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."
Half-True
September 12, 2017
X posts
X posts
stated on September 11, 2017 tweets
"Paul Ryan doesn't know what the minimum wage is in Wisconsin."  
Mostly False
September 11, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 a town hall
Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job."  
Mostly False
September 1, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on August 6, 2017 a TV interview
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin is "still 16,000 manufacturing jobs lower than we were during the recession."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • August 30, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 28, 2017 an interview
Says Foxconn didn't keep a promise to build a plant in Pennsylvania because "Pennsylvania changed governors."  
Mostly False
August 25, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 19, 2017 a tweet
"We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • August 23, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 18, 2017 an article on LinkedIn
"70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • August 18, 2017
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