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Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2020 a Facebook post:

“All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred.”

Half-True

By Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2020 a news conference:

Says that “over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference” on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • March 19, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 a debate:

Because the Federal Reserve recently cut interest rates to near 0%, “the Fed will be of little consequence now. They’ve already used what leverage they have.”

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 18, 2020

Tony Evers
stated on January 26, 2020 a TV interview:

On whether the state should use surplus funds for ongoing expenses.

Half Flip

By Haley BeMiller • March 17, 2020

Mike Parson
stated on February 14, 2020 a speech:

“Right now we have over 40,000 new jobs in a little over 18 months” in Missouri.

False

By Jack Kosowski • March 16, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.:

Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2020

Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice:

“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”

Mostly True

By Sean Na • March 10, 2020

Mark Pocan
stated on January 16, 2020 a tweet:

“There’s an Amazon distribution center that was advertising, last time I was there, up to $12.75 an hour. Your parents made that three decades ago.”

Mostly True

By Madeline Heim • February 28, 2020

Glenn Grothman
stated on January 16, 2020 a tweet:

"In #WI, over 44,000 jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada."

Half-True

By D.L. Davis • February 26, 2020

Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech:

Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 a public forum:

“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”

Mostly True

By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020:

"Years of economic decay are over" because Trump "reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration."

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 comments at a campaign rally:

"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020

Ro Khanna
stated on December 20, 2019 an interview with MSNBC:

Says the California congressional district he represents "has a higher GDP than Russia."

False

By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles:

Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."

True

By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019

Dale Kooyenga
stated on December 13, 2019 an email:

Says minimum markup law goes beyond gas, tobacco and alcohol to make "many doorbuster deals and holiday shopping specials technically against the law."

Half-True

By Eric Litke • December 18, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 a rally in San Antonio, Texas.:

"I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2019

Jim Justice
stated on October 16, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says a new annual report shows that "West Virginia’s tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent."

True

By Darby Coughlin, Mackenzie Myers • December 17, 2019

Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on December 1, 2019 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"In Bakersfield, where there’s a lot of oil drilling going on, there’s more solar jobs now in Bakersfield and around that area than there are oil jobs."

False

By Chris Nichols • December 6, 2019

Brian Treece
stated on October 17, 2019 a press conference:

Columbia, Mo., is "one of the fastest growing cities in the region, the only city in the state to grow jobs faster than the nation as a whole."

Mostly False

By Libby Stanford • November 16, 2019

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