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Lisa Hamler-Fugitt
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt
stated on June 1, 2011 testimony before a House subcommittee:
"Ohio currently ranks 50th out of all states in income growth."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • July 7, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 27, 2011 several speeches and interviews:
Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on June 14, 2011 a speech.:
"The tax on job creating businesses is 35 percent in the United States, second worst in the entire world."
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By Sean Gorman • June 18, 2011
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on April 19, 2011 a press release:
"Creating 25 jobs in Umatilla County has the same impact as 500 jobs in the metro region."
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By Ian K. Kullgren • June 17, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Over the last 15 months, we've added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector. That's far in excess of what it was in the comparable period after the last recession."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Manufacturing is having its best employment year in almost 15 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2011
Adam Hasner
Adam Hasner
stated on May 23, 2011 a tweet:
"Obama-Nelson economic record: Job creation ... at slowest post-recession rate since Great Depression."  
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By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential run:
The U.S. has "47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over."
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By Willoughby Mariano • May 24, 2011
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on May 1, 2011 a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech in Cleveland:
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
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By Mark Naymik • April 28, 2011
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing:
"Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes."
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By Tom Feran • March 18, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference:
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Patti Doyle
Patti Doyle
stated on March 2, 2011 a radio interview:
At Twin River, "we're more than competitive" with nearby casinos in slot machine payouts.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 13, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.:
"We’ve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row."
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By Jacob Geiger • March 2, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 24, 2011 on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor":
"The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.:
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."
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By Sean Gorman • February 26, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM:
"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."
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By James McCarty • February 21, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 21, 2011 HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"From 1980 to 1990, the top 1 percent saw their income go up by roughly 80 percent" while "the median wage in the country over (the same) 10 years went up 3 percent."
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By Robert Farley • February 3, 2011
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on December 29, 2010 an op-ed:
"On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent."
Mostly True
January 15, 2011
Marie Ghazal
Marie Ghazal
stated on December 17, 2010 a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Rhode Island has the highest percentage of uninsured adults of any state in New England."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 4, 2011
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