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Sean Spicer
stated on January 23, 2017 the daily press briefing:

There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Edward Cox
stated on January 10, 2017 a press conference:

"The exodus of citizens from New York State has been growing."

True

By Dan Clark • January 20, 2017

Peter Barca
stated on January 10, 2017 a news conference:

Wisconsin’s middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States.

False

By Jonathan Anderson • January 20, 2017

Mark Pocan
stated on December 8, 2016 an appearance on Fox News:

"In the last decade, 73% of new jobs (in Wisconsin) have come from Madison."

False

By Eric Litke • January 19, 2017

Michael Long
stated on October 14, 2016 an interview on Capital Tonight:

Because of its higher minimum wage, New York State is "already showing signs of various companies picking up and leaving."

Mostly False

By Dan Clark • December 23, 2016

Jerry Brown
stated on December 14, 2016 a speech:

"California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • December 19, 2016

Heather McGhee
stated on December 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"Less than half" of jobs at the Carrier manufacturing plant in Indiana "are actually staying."

Half-True

By Allison Graves • December 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2016 a rally in Atkinson, N.H.:

"Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2016

Mark Assini
stated on October 18, 2016 a debate on WROC:

"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."

False

By Dan Clark • November 4, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 31, 2016 remarks in Cocoa Beach, Fla.:

"One in five American households have nobody under the same roof that's got a job."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2016 a rally outside Cleveland:

Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.

False

By Nadia Pflaum • October 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2016 a rally in Detroit:

"Back in the Great Recession, when millions of jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ "

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 27, 2016 a campaign event in Fla.:

Says Hillary Clinton "promised, running for the Senate years ago, 200,000 jobs for upstate New York. ... Not only didn't they come, but they lost so many jobs."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • October 7, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on September 26, 2016 a TV ad:

Says Ron Johnson "helped companies ship jobs overseas."

False

By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:

Says that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016

Bruce Rauner
stated on September 19, 2016 a press conference:

Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system. That’s the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.

True

By Matt Dietrich • October 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2016

Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 23, 2016 a speech in Buffalo:

"Most private sector jobs in the history of Buffalo exist in Buffalo today"

True

By Dan Clark • September 24, 2016

Republican National Committee
stated on September 17, 2016 an email :

"Over the past eight years, black youth unemployment is up."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2016

Robert Duffy
stated on August 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Rochester Business Journal:

If upstate New York split from downstate "the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country."

Mostly True

By Dan Clark • September 16, 2016

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