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Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on August 6, 2011 in a Texas Capitol rally.:
Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 10, 2011 in a news conference in Belmar :
"Since I introduced my budget -- first budget -- in March of 2010, we've created 50,000 new private-sector jobs for the people of this state."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • August 21, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 18, 2011 in a tweet:
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2011
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on July 8, 2011 in a press release from Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex):
"Numerous studies have shown that these so-called right-to-work laws do not generate jobs and economic growth."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • July 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 in a Twitter Town Hall:
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 23, 2011 in comments at a bill signing:
"In May we generated more jobs than all the rest of the country combined: 28,000 jobs in May for the state, 54,000 for the entire country."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 14, 2011 in a cameo interview.:
"Since June 2009, about 48 percent of all the jobs created in America were in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on June 19, 2011 in a CNN interview:
When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states in job creation.  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Brian Deese
Brian Deese
stated on June 2, 2011 in a telephone news conference:
"We've seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • June 9, 2011
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Texas Public Policy Foundation
stated on April 25, 2011 in a television ad that ran through May 20:
Says that in the last five years, Texas "created more jobs than all other states combined."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 29, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on May 5, 2011 in a presidential debate:
"Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 6, 2011
Steve Moore
Steve Moore
stated on April 1, 2011 in a column in the "Wall Street Journal":
The ratio of people working for the government and working in manufacturing today is "an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011
Babur Lateef
Babur Lateef
stated on March 26, 2011 in a YouTube video.:
Since Corey Stewart became chairman in November 2006, unemployment is up 150% and average home price sales are down $150,000.
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 30, 2011
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on March 14, 2011 in a Tweet.:
The GOP budget plan "would cut nearly a million jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 21, 2011
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 4, 2011 in a newspaper interview:
"If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, it's out of whack. The government's growing and the private economy's shrinking."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • March 21, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 in a press release.:
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
Brian Moran
Brian Moran
stated on February 25, 2011 in a news release.:
Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2010 "did not even create enough jobs to keep pace with population growth" in Virginia. 
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • March 3, 2011
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference.:
Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on February 17, 2011 in a news release:
Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats "rammed" the economic stimulus bill through, "Ohio's unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • February 22, 2011
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