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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 comments on "State of the Union"

"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 a press conference

The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet

The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."

Mostly False

By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015

Butch Conway
stated on September 16, 2015 press conference

The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office mirrors the community it serves.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • September 29, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert

"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015

Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting

Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015

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stated on September 6, 2015 a Facebook post

"Unions did not create" the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. "Henry Ford did."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Sarah Palin

"We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they're considered employed."

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2015

Russ Feingold
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech

Says Ron Johnson "opposes entirely a federal minimum wage," except perhaps for "guest workers."

True

August 27, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 a debate

"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."

Mostly True

By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015

Israel O'Quinn
stated on August 10, 2015 a speech.

On unemployment rates: "We have counties in Southwest Virginia that are well into double digits and some that are pushing 20 percent."

False

By Warren Fiske • August 17, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate

"One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically."

Mostly False

August 12, 2015

Georgia Department of Economic Development
stated on July 9, 2015 a press release

Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgia’s economy in the most recent fiscal year.

Half-True

By April Hunt • August 7, 2015

Chris Riley
stated on July 17, 2015 an Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog post

Since Volvo spurned Georgia for South Carolina in early May, some 3,455 jobs promising more than $800 million in investments have come to the Peach State.

True

By April Hunt • July 31, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show"

"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2015

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
stated on July 8, 2015 a Facebook post

Says "Scott Walker’s bad budget includes: No weekend for workers."

False

By Sarah Hauer • July 21, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 a rally in Portland, Maine

For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015

American Bridge 21st Century
stated on July 1, 2015 a website posting

Wisconsin’s economy has "tanked" under Gov. Scott Walker and "so far in 2015 over 6,685 people have been laid off, already more than in all of 2014."

False

By James B. Nelson • July 10, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on May 30, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire

"Nationally, the unemployment rate for veterans is far greater than the national unemployment rate," and Wisconsin is "one of those rare examples where unemployment is actually lower for veterans than it is for the population as a whole and certainly lower than it is nationally."

Half-True

By Sarah Hauer • June 23, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 his presidential announcement speech

"Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don't believe the 5.6. Don't believe it."

False

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015

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