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Nikki Bowmar
Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 in a comment in a newspaper article:
Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."
Mostly True
By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:
"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet:
"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 17, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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