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Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate

"First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • October 5, 2016

NowThis
stated on August 10, 2016 a viral video

Says President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 11, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 a press conference at the White House

Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."

Half-True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview before a speech in Winston-Salem, NC

Says he and Bernie Sanders have "very similar" views on trade

Mostly True

By Will Doran • July 27, 2016

Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 24, 2016 an interview on CNN

Unemployment numbers "are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, it's a total disaster."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 25, 2016

Luis Gutierrez
stated on May 12, 2016 in a speech

"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."

Half-True

By Taylor Leighton • July 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 5, 2016 a speech in Charlotte, N.C.

Says Donald Trump "wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage."

True

By Will Doran • July 8, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2016 in a town hall

"We've seen more manufacturing jobs created since I've been president than anytime since the 1990s. That's a fact."

Half-True

By Neelesh Moorthy • June 16, 2016

Patty Judge
stated on June 1, 2016 a post-debate interview

"When a bill is sent to the governor’s office, there is no option for changing it. You sign it or you don’t sign it. While there was lots of conversation, there was really no opportunity for any sort of amending."

Half-True

By Jason Noble • June 4, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on May 9, 2016 a campaign stop at Steelworkers 1104 in Lorain, Ohio

Trade deals are negotiated in "secret" and, unlike corporate interests, politicians never invite "the leaders of the AFL-CIO or steelworkers or the mine workers to come in and sit down in these meetings."

Half-True

By Nadia Pflaum • May 19, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 10, 2016 a news release

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has "2.8 students per faculty" member, "tied for second-lowest in its history since 1994."

Pants on Fire!

May 13, 2016

Joe Roman
stated on April 25, 2016 a Plain Dealer article

Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is "the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country."

True

By Nadia Pflaum • May 9, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad

Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016

Enterprise Florida
stated on April 27, 2016 Enterprise Florida radio ads in California

"Seven hundred thousand. That’s how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage….Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them."

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • May 4, 2016

Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 a press release

"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016

William Barber
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech announcing the Moral Monday march

"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"

Mostly True

By Will Doran • April 28, 2016

Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight"

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 14, 2016 a television interview

"Hedge fund managers and others in private equity pay much lower (tax) rates on their income than do truck drivers and teachers and nurses."

False

By Sarah Hauer • April 13, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

True

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor

"We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."

False

By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016

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