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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 TV interview:
“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 an interview with Fox News:
Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
Simon Rosenberg
Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 a post on X:
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024
Brian Schimming
Brian Schimming
stated on March 13, 2024 Statement:
“On Joe Biden’s watch, Wisconsin has lost 6,000 manufacturing jobs and 455 dairy farms in the last year.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • March 20, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 9, 2024 a rally in Rome, Georgia:
"In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 13, 2024 a campaign ad:
Under Joe Biden, there are “record numbers of new Black entrepreneurs.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2024
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 4, 2024 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":
Under President Joe Biden, “Black unemployment is the lowest in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2024 Speech:
“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”
True
By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 a speech to the United Auto Workers:
“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 a post on X:
“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023
One Nation
One Nation
stated on September 4, 2023 a petition:
Sen. Joe Manchin’s “support for the (Inflation Reduction Act) could cost West Virginia 100,000 fossil fuel jobs.”
Mostly False
By Aidan Cornue • October 24, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 a post on X:
“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”
Mostly True
By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 a campaign ad:
Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 22, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 15, 2023 a speech in Milwaukee:
“A higher percentage of American workers are working today than ever before.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 21, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2023 a speech in South Carolina:
“During Biden’s first 30 months in office, just 2.1 million new jobs were created, and by contrast, during my first 30 months in office we created 4.9 million new jobs.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2023
Nicole Malliotakis
Nicole Malliotakis
stated on July 14, 2023 a radio interview:
“You can work at some McDonald’s in this country for more money than … signing up for the military.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 28, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 a speech in Chicago:
Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on May 22, 2023 his presidential announcement speech:
“The share of working-age men choosing to work is the lowest it has ever been.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2023 the State of the State speech:
"Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor."
Half-True
By Aarón Torres • March 20, 2023
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