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Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook Live:
"Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth."
Half-True
By Riley Newton, Tateanna McCaskill • September 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2017 a speech to the United Nations General Assembly:
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 12, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook live conversation:
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."
Half-True
By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 6, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on August 6, 2017 a TV interview:
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin is "still 16,000 manufacturing jobs lower than we were during the recession."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • August 30, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 19, 2017 a tweet:
"We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • August 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters:
Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Melissa Sargent
Melissa Sargent
stated on August 2, 2017 a tweet:
On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2017
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on July 9, 2017 a TV interview:
"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."
Mostly True
By Devi Shastri • August 9, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 14, 2017 his speech kicking off his re-election campaign:
"More Texans have jobs today than ever before in the history of our state."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 3, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 a blog post:
Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet:
"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2017 remarks in the Oval Office:
"Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview on MSNBC:
The Inland Empire is "the second fastest growing region" for jobs in California.
True
By Chris Nichols • July 27, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:
"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on Fox News:
In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a speech:
"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."
False
By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview:
Wisconsin is "dead-last in creating new businesses" for "three years in a row."  
Half-True
By Andrew Mollica, Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
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