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National Federation of Independent Business-Virginia
stated on May 17, 2016 in a website post.:

"The vast majority of minimum wage workers get a raise within a year."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • June 2, 2016

Nikki Haley
stated on May 17, 2016 in a forum.:

"More people today are leaving Virginia than moving in."

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • May 31, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on March 14, 2016 in an interview with Texas Monthly:

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

False

By Eleanor Dearman • May 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 in an advertisement:

"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 16, 2016 in remarks at a Kentucky rally:

"We just had the best year for the auto industry in America in history."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • May 20, 2016

Penny Pritzker
stated on May 13, 2016 in a Medium post:

Since 2009, "after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2016

Jack Lew
stated on May 3, 2016 in an interview with Bloomberg News:

"Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."

Mostly True

By Marta Cerava • May 17, 2016

Chris Sgro
stated on May 4, 2016 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:

"We got a million jobs."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

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