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Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

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