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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 28, 2023 in a speech in Maine:
"Wages are up after being adjusted for inflation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Every study has shown” that when work requirements are tied to federal safety-net programs, “it puts more people to work.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on May 22, 2023 in 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
Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 in a news release:
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on February 21, 2023 in YouTube ad:
“Tammy Baldwin wants to take away” Medicare and Social Security.
False
By Laura Schulte • March 7, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2023 in a speech in Lanham, Maryland:
The “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2023
Mike Palicz
Mike Palicz
stated on February 7, 2023 in a tweet:
The 87,000 new IRS agents who were supposed to “only target the rich” are now “coming after waitresses’ tips.”
Mostly False
By Loreben Tuquero • February 10, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 in remarks at the White House:
“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 in News release:
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Miguel Cardona
Miguel Cardona
stated on August 21, 2022 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Adjusted for inflation, over the last 25 years teachers have made a $29 increase in their salary."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on July 24, 2022 in Twitter:
"There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless adults on BadgerCare since the pandemic."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • August 2, 2022
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on March 15, 2022 in a tweet.:
“Virginia women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to Virginia men.”
True
By Warren Fiske • March 18, 2022
Greg Casar
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 in an ad:
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Kellogg’s tweeted, “Oh, so you think it's cool when workers strike jobs? Now replace 'jobs' with 'women.' Still think it's 'cool'?"
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 21, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 in TV interview:
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2021 in a press conference in Glasgow:
“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“The Canadian government threatens to fire any government employee who uses ‘Let's Go Brandon’ in communications.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • October 20, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 3, 2021 in Twitter:
“President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 21, 2021
Kurt Bauer
Kurt Bauer
stated on June 27, 2021 in TV interview:
“We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 10, 2021
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:
“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”
True
By Madeline Heim • June 19, 2021
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