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Chris Sgro
stated on May 4, 2016 a press release

"We've already lost $500 million in economic impact" from HB2 fallout in North Carolina.

False

By Will Doran • May 16, 2016

Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2016 speaking against Proposition 1 on Austin's May 7, 2016 ballot

"Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 4, 2016 an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper

"The market is making this decision. The market has driven down the cost of coal, so you have companies going bankrupt."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2016

Jerry Brown
stated on April 26, 2016 a statement

"California has added twice as many jobs as Florida" over the past year.

Half-True

By Chris Nichols • May 6, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet

"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016

Kiki Curls
stated on April 4, 2016 following a Missouri Senate Budget Committee hearing

Missouri "is the state with the lowest paid workers."

Half-True

By Conner Smith • May 2, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on April 28, 2016 an official announcement

North Carolina has "one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country."

True

By Will Doran • 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

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a Democratic debate in New York

"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016

Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a post on Medium

Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 a rally at a Phoenix high school

"The economy always does better when there’s a Democrat in the White House."

Half-True

By Anthony Cave • April 6, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks

"We got a million jobs."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 a campaign speech

"A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • April 6, 2016

Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate

"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."

Mostly True

By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 a speech

Wisconsin’s "effective" unemployment rate is 20 percent.

False

March 30, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2016 Pennsylvania

"Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we’re trying to cure."

True

By Cassie Owens • March 30, 2016

Vicky Hartzler
stated on March 24, 2016 an interview with ABC17 News

"We have less Americans working now than in the ’70s."

Mostly False

By Conner Smith • March 26, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview

"Virginia now is the number one exporter of (agricultural) products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one."

True

By Sean Gorman • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill

(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016

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