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Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2018 a tweet:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average "jumped 1000 points in last 5 weeks, Record fastest 1000 point move in history."

True

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2018 a tweet:

"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing for you but get your vote!"

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2018

Brian Kolb
stated on December 9, 2017 an op-ed:

"New York state spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job-creation programs - more than the combined total of the next three largest states"

Half-True

By Dan Clark • January 5, 2018

Jason Smith
stated on November 13, 2017 a tweet:

"Check out the record of #jobs created by #TaxCuts 7.8 million new jobs after Bush’s 2003 tax cuts 12 million new jobs after Kennedy's 1964 tax cuts 14.8 MILLION new jobs after Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts in 1981."

Mostly False

By Emma Diltz • December 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on November 29, 2017 a speech in St. Charles, Mo.:

Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state."

False

By Lucille Sherman • December 15, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on December 8, 2017 a statement released by her office:

"Even with full control of the House, Senate and White House, Republicans have still failed to deliver on their promise of higher wages for working families."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on December 6, 2017 a cabinet meeting:

"We’re … getting into the pool of the 100 million people that are not working. That pool is now coming back."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • December 7, 2017

Chris Ruddy
stated on December 3, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2017

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview:

Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."

Mostly False

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • November 29, 2017

Missouri Department of Economic Development
stated on October 19, 2017 a proposal to Amazon.com:

Among states, Missouri ranks "3rd (in) average yearly growth of high-tech industries."

Mostly True

By Kathryn Hardison • November 27, 2017

Matt Flynn
stated on November 4, 2017 a news release:

Under Scott Walker, "average wages, when adjusted for inflation, are lower today than they were under Jim Doyle."

Half-True

By Andrew Mollica, Tom Kertscher • November 17, 2017

Greg Abbott
stated on November 15, 2017 a video ad posted on his campaign website:

"The Texas unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in 40 years & Texas led the nation last month in new job creation."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2017

Eric Holcomb
stated on October 24, 2017 a campaign ad:

"We’re growing union jobs faster than Illinois."

True

By Matt Dietrich • November 3, 2017

James Lankford
stated on October 22, 2017 an interview on "Face the Nation":

"For the last 10 years, our economy has grown at less than 2 percent on average every single year for 10 years. We have not had a decade like that in a century in America."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2017

Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 an op-ed:

"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."

True

By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017

Joe Manchin
stated on October 22, 2017 An MSNBC interview:

Says West Virginia is "down to around 50 percent of the adult workers who are actually working now because of addiction or conviction."

Half-True

By Allison Colburn • October 27, 2017

Rahm Emanuel
stated on October 18, 2017 a speech:

"And over the last six years, Chicago’s economy has grown faster than the economies of New York City, Washington, D.C., or the national average."

Mostly False

By Matt Dietrich • October 20, 2017

Tony Evers
stated on October 4, 2017 a video:

"Job creation fell by 70 percent in Wisconsin in 2016" under Scott Walker.

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on October 1, 2017 an interview on CBS' Face the Nation:

Trump’s tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class."

False

By Dan Clark • October 9, 2017

Edward Cox
stated on September 19, 2017 a conversation with reporters:

New York has "the biggest outmigration of citizens of any state."

Mostly True

By Dan Clark • September 29, 2017

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