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Facebook posts
stated on April 3, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says fluid milk production limitations mean grocery stores are short on milk even as farmers are dumping it
Half-True
By Eric Litke • April 10, 2020
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Viral image
stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“If you’ve let somebody claim your kids for income tax purposes, you will not receive a stimulus check. The person who claimed your kids is gonna get it.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • April 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Unemployment now pays $24/hour, even if your wages were lower. Why don’t ‘essential’ people forced to still work get $24, too?”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2020 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2020 in 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
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in 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
Tony Evers
stated on January 26, 2020 in a TV interview:
On whether the state should use surplus funds for ongoing expenses.
Half Flip
By Haley BeMiller • March 17, 2020
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on February 14, 2020 in 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
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in 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
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 in 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
Mark Pocan
stated on January 16, 2020 in 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
Glenn Grothman
stated on January 16, 2020 in 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
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 in 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
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 in 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
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
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 in 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
Ro Khanna
stated on December 20, 2019 in 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
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 in the Democratic debate in Los Angeles:
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on December 13, 2019 in 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
Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 in 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
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