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Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia

"The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • July 26, 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

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland

"Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone."

True

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"There are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2016

Hugh Hewitt
stated on July 20, 2016 an MSNBC panel

"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."

Mostly False

By Nadia Pflaum • July 21, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

"Our economy is not growing."

False

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2016

Scott Peters
stated on July 12, 2016 a media conference call.

Donald Trump "rooted for the housing crisis, because he knew he could make money off of it."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • July 20, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 14, 2016 a speech.

Says Donald Trump is "against minimum wage."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • July 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2016 a speech in San Diego

"95 percent of the world’s customers are … beyond our shores."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 12, 2016 a Donald Trump rally in Indiana

"Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 12, 2016 a speech in Portsmouth, N.H.

"Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2016

Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 an op-ed for PennLive

"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."

Half-True

By Cassie Owens • July 13, 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

Morten Jerven
stated on June 29, 2016 an article

For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 7, 2016

Mark Warner
stated on June 19, 2016 a radio interview.

"The average time someone used to hold a share of stock back in the ’60s was eight years. Now, the average time is four months."

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • July 6, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 remarks in Ottawa, Canada

"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2016

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