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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on July 13, 2018 in 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
stated on June 29, 2018 in 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
stated on June 28, 2018 in 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
stated on June 28, 2018 in 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
stated on June 4, 2018 in 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
stated on May 31, 2018 in 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
stated on May 21, 2018 in 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

Steve Adler
stated on May 8, 2018 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • April 18, 2018

Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 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

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