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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 4, 2018 a tweet
"In 2017, the number of new business registrations in West Virginia grew nearly 11 percent (8,318 new businesses registered for the year). This comes off the heels of a 12 percent increase in new business registrations during 2016."
Mostly True
By Alanna Longnecker, Adrianne Uphold • September 20, 2018
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on September 12, 2018 a Facebook post
"Most Americans don’t own stocks."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.
Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"
Mostly True
By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 7, 2018 a tweet
"Thanks to President Trump and Republicans over the past year through July, U.S. manufacturing added 327,000 jobs, the most of any 12-month period since April 1995, when the figure added a healthy 345,000 positions."
Mostly True
By Adrianne Uphold • September 6, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 10, 2018 a tweet
"For only the second time since 2000, there are more job openings than Americans who are unemployed."
True
By Anja Martin • August 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2018 a rally in Charleston, W.Va.
"A few months ago, it hit where West Virginia is, on a per capita basis, one of the most successful (gross domestic product) states in our union."
Mostly False
By Warren Sterling • August 31, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 26, 2018 an ad in the Houston Defender
Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 8, 2018 a tweet
"The American economy is continuing its longest monthly streak of job growth in history, with 3.9 million jobs added since President Trump was elected."
True
By Warren Sterling • August 23, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on August 14, 2018 a White House press briefing
"President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on July 26, 2018 a tweet
"Between the first and second quarters of 2018 — after the tax cuts were enacted — real wages fell by 1.8 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2018
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 22, 2018 an opinion piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer
"[The] unemployment rate in the Philadelphia metro area is now at its lowest level ever recorded."
Mostly True
By Sarah Anne Hughes • July 23, 2018
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 18, 2018 a tweet and campaign event
Wisconsin lost "almost 4,000 manufacturing jobs in 2017."
False
By Taylor Palmby • July 23, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on July 13, 2018 an interview on PBS' "Firing Line"
"Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2018
Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow
stated on June 29, 2018 an interview with Fox Business Network
"The deficit ... is coming down, and it’s coming down rapidly."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2018 a speech in Mount Pleasant, Wis.
"Watch those GDP numbers. We started off at a very low number, and right now we hit a 3.2 (percent). Nobody thought that was possible."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2018 a speech in Mount Pleasant, Wis.
"The European Union … they send us Mercedes, they send us -- by the millions -- the BMWs -- cars by the millions."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2018
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 4, 2018 a Senate floor speech
"The bottom line is clear: Under the policies of this unified Republican government, American workers, families, and business owners are achieving economic growth that is unmatched in recent memory. … More than 1 million new jobs have been created just since we passed tax reform last December."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2018
Ben Sasse
Ben Sasse
stated on May 31, 2018 a statement
"We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2018
Tina Smith
Tina Smith
stated on May 21, 2018 a tweet
"Taking into account inflation, the federal minimum wage is actually worth less than what it was worth 50 years ago."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2018
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