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Steve Adler
stated on May 8, 2018 an interview on KLBJ-AM

Says Austin is "creating more jobs than any other city in the country."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018

Don Blankenship
stated on April 23, 2018 a debate

Says illegal immigration is "costing us $130 billion a year to house and feed and give benefits to people that shouldn’t be even in the country."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2018

Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2018 a tweet

Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 an interview on "Fox & Friends"

"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018

James Tedisco
stated on April 13, 2018 a blog post

After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state "reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure."

True

By Dan Clark • April 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2018 a press conference

"The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It's anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2018

Charles Schumer
stated on April 16, 2018 a news release from Senate Democrats

In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on April 4, 2018 a tweet

"Our bold reforms have Wisconsin’s unemployment rate down to an all-time LOW of 2.9 percent, and the number of people working at an all-time HIGH!"

Half-True

April 18, 2018

Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 a statement on the state budget

This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"

False

By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018

Paul Mango
stated on May 7, 2017 a campaign video

"Today, we (in Pennsylvania) have higher unemployment and lower job growth than most."

Mostly True

By Colin Deppen • April 9, 2018

Alex Mooney
stated on March 25, 2018 a Wall Street Journal op-ed

"From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018

Joe Manchin
stated on March 21, 2018 a tweet

Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2018 in a press conference

Says the U.S. steel and aluminum industry is "a fraction of what it once was."

Mostly True

By John Kruzel • March 13, 2018

Leah Vukmir
stated on January 25, 2018 an article

Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."

False

By D.L. Davis • March 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 remarks before a Cabinet meeting

"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018

Noah Smith
stated on March 7, 2018 a Bloomberg View column

"Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily."

True

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2018

Dana Wachs
stated on January 29, 2018 a radio interview

"We are last in the nation in startups — 50th."

True

By Eric Litke • March 8, 2018

Michael Williams
stated on February 27, 2018 a CNN interview

Says Delta offers a discount to Planned Parenthood.

False

By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2018

Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 a panel at the conservative CPAC conference

"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018

Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on December 21, 2017 radio interview

"We have roughly between 85,000 (and) 95,000 open jobs in Wisconsin."

Half-True

By Eric Litke • February 23, 2018

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