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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 17, 2019 a podcast:
"It's clear in our country right now, almost half of American families are a $400 unexpected expense away from complete upheaval."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • April 19, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 1, 2019 a podcast interview:
"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019
Daniel Riemer
Daniel Riemer
stated on February 17, 2019 a TV interview:
"About 80 percent of (the manufacturing and agriculture) tax credit goes to claimants who are making $1 million or more."  
True
By Mica Soellner • April 4, 2019
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on February 6, 2019 a tweet:
"We have more women in the workforce than ever before."
Half-True
By Samantha Patrick • March 27, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 6, 2019 a news release:
"College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit card debt."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 12, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget "slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 20, 2019
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet:
"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 4, 2019 a press conference:
"On a per capita basis, Irving-Las Colinas has more Fortune 500 companies than any city in the United States of America."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 9, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet:
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed:
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
True
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 a speech.:
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
True
By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing:
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 16, 2019 a tweet:
During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • February 5, 2019
West Virginia Democratic Party
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet:
"FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office."
Mostly False
By Cade Moisey, Matt Holleran • February 4, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 an op-ed:
"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."
Mostly True
By Erica Anderson, Mylana Chico • February 4, 2019
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 news release:
"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • February 1, 2019
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 a joint statement:
Potential Foxconn changes are due to "the wave of economic uncertainty" from Evers administration
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Litke • February 1, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 27, 2019 a campaign launch event:
"The cost of living is going up, but paychecks aren't keeping up."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2019
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on January 24, 2019 his budget address in the Statehouse.:
"Every county, including Chittenden, has fewer people available for work."
False
By Colin Meyn, Felippe Rodrigues • January 26, 2019
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