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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
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 2, 2019 a public forum
On dissolving the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. in his first budget  
Full Flop
By Eric Litke • January 17, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet
"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • January 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet
"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on September 19, 2018 a tweet
"WV's tourism industry grew at a rate 30% above the national rate in 2017. This increase reversed a four-year decline in which travel-generated spending fell more than $600 million."
Mostly True
By Matt Minard • December 14, 2018
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