Fact Check Posts – Page 14

Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":

"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."

By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2017

Scott Pruitt
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2017

Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 in a speech:

Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."

By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on April 5, 2017 in a news release:

"Due to the recent downturn in steel production, more than 13,600 Americans have been laid off and the steel industry is facing billions in losses."

By Austin Hough • May 30, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 in a tweet:

Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 25, 2017 in a White House web page:

Says he created "over 500,000 new jobs -- with a surge in female employment last month."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2017

Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 in an op-ed:

"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech:

"We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization."

By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on March 23, 2017 in a radio address:

"Wisconsin’s economy is in the best shape it’s been since 2000."

By Andrew Mollica, Tom Kertscher • April 13, 2017

Eric Greitens
stated on February 8, 2017 in a television interview:

"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so clear that this is going to lead to more jobs and higher pay for the people of Missouri."

By Allison Colburn • April 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on March 26, 2017 in an interview on Meet the Press:

California’s Central Valley and Inland Empire "are experiencing tremendous job growth."

By Chris Nichols • April 4, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on March 26, 2017 in an interview on Meet the Press:

"2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years" in California

By Chris Nichols • March 29, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on February 14, 2017 in a press release on her website:

Small businesses "create two out of every three American jobs."

By Austin Hough • March 18, 2017

Patricia Farley
stated on March 14, 2017 in a news conference in the Capitol:

"A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn't a man."

By Allison Graves • March 14, 2017

Dan Forest
stated on March 6, 2017 in a press conference in Texas:

Says HB2 has hurt North Carolina’s economy by "one-tenth of 1 percent of our annual GDP."

By Will Doran • March 7, 2017

Janet Cruz
stated on March 7, 2017 in a speech:

"Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average."

By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2017

Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2017 in a statement to press:

"When the House wants to stop Enterprise Florida ... they’re hurting our rural communities."

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2017

Rick Scott
stated on February 13, 2017 in a roundtable discussion:

"Your politicians in Tallahassee today are saying, in your area, that they don't need any more jobs. That is exactly what Rep. Paul Renner said."

By Allison Graves • February 17, 2017

Gordon Hintz
stated on January 30, 2017 in an interview:

"Eleven individuals who make over $30 million each got $22 million credit" from Wisconsin's manufacturing and agriculture tax credit.

By Tom Kertscher • February 17, 2017

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