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Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on August 14, 2018 a White House press briefing:

"President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what President Obama did (for African-American employment) in eight years."

By Louis Jacobson • August 15, 2018

Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 18, 2018 a tweet and campaign event:

Wisconsin lost "almost 4,000 manufacturing jobs in 2017."

By Taylor Palmby • July 23, 2018

Juliana Stratton
stated on June 28, 2018 a radio interview:

Gov. Bruce Rauner has "created no jobs over the past three years."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 16, 2018

Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 28, 2018 a television interview:

"Chicago is experiencing right now the highest employment since 1950."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 9, 2018

Steve Adler
stated on May 8, 2018 an interview on KLBJ-AM:

Says Austin is "creating more jobs than any other city in the country."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018

Brian Kolb
stated on March 31, 2018 a statement on the state budget:

This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"

By Dan Clark • April 9, 2018

Rahm Emanuel
stated on January 9, 2018 a talk radio appearance:

"Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 22, 2018

Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 3, 2018 his State of the State address:

"A case before Washington’s Supreme Court seeks to effectively end public labor unions."

By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018

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."

By Lucille Sherman • December 15, 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."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters:

Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

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."

By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2017

Paul Soglin
stated on June 18, 2017 an interview:

Since he and Scott Walker took office in 2011, "60,000 new jobs have been created in this state -- 40,000 of them were created in Madison and the Madison area."

By Tom Kertscher • July 5, 2017

Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 13, 2017 an email:

"A study by the National Economics Research Association showed that the (Paris climate) deal could cost 2.7 million lost jobs in the U.S. by 2025 should our country adhere to the commitments made by the Obama Administration."

By Manuela Tobias • June 21, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 a tweet:

Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 a CEO town hall:

"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Peter Barca
stated on January 10, 2017 a news conference:

Wisconsin’s middle class is the "most diminished" in the United States.

By Jonathan Anderson • January 20, 2017

Mark Pocan
stated on December 8, 2016 an appearance on Fox News:

"In the last decade, 73% of new jobs (in Wisconsin) have come from Madison."

By Eric Litke • January 19, 2017

Mark Assini
stated on October 18, 2016 a debate on WROC:

"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."

By Dan Clark • November 4, 2016

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