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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 30, 2014 in a tweet:
"Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year."  
True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2014
Moms Rising
Moms Rising
stated on August 5, 2014 in a tweet:
"Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty spells in the United States."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2014
Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson
stated on July 18, 2014 in a campaign debate:
"It's been 17 years that we've had unemployment higher than the national average in Oregon."
True
By Dana Tims • August 4, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on July 9, 2014 in a news release:
Says a $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained "strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 3, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on July 29, 2014:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst does not support "a national minimum wage." 
Mostly True
By Molly O'Connor • August 1, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 27, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
Mary Burke "wasted 12.5 million dollars on a vacant lot" in a move that "could cost taxpayers nearly $25 million."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • July 31, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 29, 2014 in a campaign email:
"Women in Florida make 83 cents for every dollar a man makes."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 30, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on July 25, 2014 in an interview:
Twenty percent of single adults, ages 21 to 25 with no kids, "are not working or even in school trying to find a job."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 30, 2014
Rob Astorino
Rob Astorino
stated on July 25, 2014 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
The state of New York is the "worst in the nation in economic recovery."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2014
Fresh Start PA
Fresh Start PA
stated on July 15, 2014 in a campaign ad:
Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 17, 2014 in an interview on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show":
The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 8, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Says Charlie Crist "voted against raising the minimum wage."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 17, 2014
Monica Wehby
Monica Wehby
stated on July 9, 2014 in an economic issues statement:
The 2011 Rebuild America Jobs Act "would have cost the average American family $1,000 a year while making no significant impact to fix our infrastructure and roads."
False
By Dana Tims • July 11, 2014
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on July 9, 2014 in an economic issues statement:
"I co-sponsored the Rebuild America Jobs Act" for transportation and infrastructure.
False
By Dana Tims • July 11, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 8, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
"As Jim Doyle’s Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin" and had laid off 800 workers.
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 10, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 19, 2014 in a news conference:
"We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since I've been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyle’s time as governor."
Mostly True
By Devon Waugh • July 9, 2014
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on June 24, 2014 in a letter to Milwaukee County supervisors:
A statewide poll showing 76 percent support and other surveys are a "strong indicator" of  broad public support in Milwaukee County for a $10.10 minimum wage
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 7, 2014
Joe Zepecki
Joe Zepecki
stated on June 23, 2014 in an interview:
The Wisconsin unemployment rate was higher than the U.S. rate during only three months when Mary Burke was state commerce secretary.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 6, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on May 15, 2014 in a website statement:
"Since the governor took office, Oregon’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in three years."
Half-True
By Dana Tims • July 2, 2014
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