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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 24, 2014 in 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 in 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
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on March 7, 2014 in a radio interview:
After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, "I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials."  
Mostly False
By John Hill • March 23, 2014
Barbara Sharief
Barbara Sharief
stated on March 21, 2014 in a speech in Davie, Fla.:
Broward County’s unemployment rate of 5.3 percent is "the lowest in Florida."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2014
Seneca Jones
Seneca Jones
stated on March 2, 2014 in newspaper ads:
Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: "Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?"
True
By Dana Tims • March 14, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 9, 2014 in an interview on CNN:
The economic "turnaround started at the end of my term."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV interview:
Under a bill before the legislature, "you’d have to go to court to fire an employee."
False
By John Hill • March 10, 2014
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on February 20, 2014 in in a radio interview:
On delaying a health care mandate on business.
Half Flip
By Jim Haddadin • March 7, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2014 in a speech to the Democratic National Committee in Boston:
"When I talk about (raising the) minimum wage ... half of Republicans agree with it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on March 5, 2014 in a TV ad:
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "unemployment's up" from 4.8% to 6.2%  
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • March 7, 2014
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on March 2, 2014 in a television ad:
Says "Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL."
True
By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2014
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on February 13, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
"(Mary) Burke was a senior member of the Doyle administration that left Wisconsin with 130,000 fewer jobs."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • March 5, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 27, 2014 in an event at the White House:
"Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2014 in a speech:
"Most folks’ wages haven’t gone up in over a decade."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 23, 2014
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on February 11, 2014 in a House floor speech:
"According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 21, 2014
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
stated on February 16, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Two-thirds of the people who start out in minimum wage are above the minimum wage within a year."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • February 16, 2014
Jonathan Boucher
Jonathan Boucher
stated on January 31, 2014 in a Providence Journal commentary:
"The Republican leadership in the House has refused to address the issues that matter the most to Rhode Island, such as passing a jobs bill."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2014
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on February 4, 2014 in a news release:
"The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 14, 2014
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on February 12, 2014 in a television ad:
"Nonpartisan government analysts say Obamacare will cost our economy up to 2.5 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 14, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on January 27, 2014 in a news release:
Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island "only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family."  
True
By John Hill • February 14, 2014
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