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Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

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

"The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015

Motion Picture Association of America
stated on June 8, 2015 in a press release:

The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.

Mostly True

By April Hunt • June 12, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Orlando:

"We reduced the government workforce by 13,000, 11 percent, during my eight years."

True

By Joshua Gillin • June 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:

Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2015 in a meme on social media:

"During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 18, 2015 in an appearance in Mason City, Iowa:

Hedge fund managers "pay less in taxes than nurses and truck drivers."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2015

Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015

Senate Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 in interviews:

The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOP-initiated transportation bill.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • May 13, 2015

Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states."

Mostly False

By Mark Reynolds • May 10, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 in a speech at the Women in the World conference:

"The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 in a website:

After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 in press release:

Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."

Half-True

By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015

Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 in a press release:

"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."

True

By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015

Ed Schultz
stated on April 17, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show":

"America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2015

Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 in video:

Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.

Mostly False

By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015

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