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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet:
"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016
Enterprise Florida
Enterprise Florida
stated on April 27, 2016 Enterprise Florida radio ads in California:
"Seven hundred thousand. That’s how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage….Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • May 4, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 29, 2016:
Says he "started" the Pacur plastics manufacturing company he owns.  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 4, 2016
Kiki Curls
Kiki Curls
stated on April 4, 2016 following a Missouri Senate Budget Committee hearing:
Missouri "is the state with the lowest paid workers."
Half-True
By Conner Smith • May 2, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":
Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 a campaign rally speech:
"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."  
Mostly True
By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:
"We got a million jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate:
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 a speech:
Wisconsin’s "effective" unemployment rate is 20 percent.
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2016
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on March 24, 2016 an interview with ABC17 News:
"We have less Americans working now than in the ’70s."
Mostly False
By Conner Smith • March 26, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 20, 2016 a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton:
"80 percent of the American people haven’t gotten a pay raise since the crash."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • March 24, 2016
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 a news release:
"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"
Mostly False
By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 27, 2016 a television ad:
"Twenty million Americans are out of work."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 12, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com:
Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2016 a victory speech after the New Hampshire primary:
"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2016
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