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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2014 a weekly address:
"The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on April 23, 2014 a news conference:
40 percent of illegal immigrants "had a visa and then became illegal," mostly because "they changed jobs."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 29, 2014
Alicia Menendez
Alicia Menendez
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession."
True
By Julie Kliegman • April 27, 2014
Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"95 percent of the income gains in the last few years have gone to the top 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 16, 2014 a radio interview:
"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release:
"In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 23, 2014
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on April 20, 2014 an opinion piece:
"Typical minimum wage earners in America are teenagers living with their parents in middle class families."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • April 20, 2014
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on March 25, 2014 congressional testimony.:
"From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent."  
True
By Nancy Madsen • April 14, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on April 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
Obamacare is "costing 2 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2014
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on March 13, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says the Koch brothers want to "protect tax cuts for companies that ship our jobs overseas."
False
By Steve Contorno • April 11, 2014
Genevieve Wood
Genevieve Wood
stated on April 8, 2014 comments on CNN:
"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 9, 2014
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
stated on April 8, 2014 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":
"Of all the jobs President Obama claims to have created since he started, only 38.5 percent are women. So 61.5 percent have gone to men."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2014
Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on April 4, 2014 a meme on Twitter:
"Who will raising the minimum wage actually help? … More than half work full-time. The average worker is 35 years old."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 31, 2014 an online ad:
"Since December 2010 Florida has created 540,000 new jobs."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 19, 2014 a radio commentary:
Wisconsin is "one of the bluest" states, but under Scott Walker its unemployment rate "is around 3.5%."
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 2, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on March 25, 2014 a jobs proposal:
"Wisconsin wages are declining at double the rate of other states."
Pants on Fire!
By Dave Umhoefer • March 31, 2014
Steven Rattner
Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on March 25, 2014 a report:
"Wisconsin now ranks among the top 10 states for out-migration."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 24, 2014 a television ad from Let's Get to Work:
"Obamacare will drive 2.5 million Americans out of the workforce."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview:
"Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isn’t even using the funds that are appropriated to it."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • March 23, 2014
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