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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 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
Motion Picture Association of America
stated on June 8, 2015 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
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 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
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 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
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 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
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2015 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
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 18, 2015 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
Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 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
Senate Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 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
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 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
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 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
Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 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
City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 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
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 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
Ed Schultz
stated on April 17, 2015 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
Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 video
Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.  
Mostly False
By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015
Mark Herring
Mark Herring
stated on April 14, 2015 a Facebook post.
"By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 20, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on April 5, 2015 an appearance on Fox News Sunday
Says President Ronald Reagan "had a month of job creation of 1 million."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2015
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 a meme on social media
Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on March 29, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
In the United States, we’ve had "12 years in a row of wages declining."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015
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