Fact Check Posts – Page 35

Bill Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 in a campaign speech:

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

By Chris Nichols • April 6, 2016

Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 in a gubernatorial debate:

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

By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 in a speech:

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

By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2016 in 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."

By Cassie Owens • March 30, 2016

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

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

By Conner Smith • March 26, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview:

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

By Sean Gorman • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016

Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 in a political ad:

Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."

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

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2016 in a news conference:

The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the "largest winery on the East Coast."

By Sean Gorman • March 21, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 in a campaign rally.:

"The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people."

By Sean Gorman • March 14, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2016 in the Miami GOP debate.:

"GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters."

By Linda Qiu • March 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:

"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016

John Kasich
stated on February 27, 2016 in a television ad:

"Twenty million Americans are out of work."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2016

Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on March 6, 2016 in an endorsement speech in Columbus, Ohio.:

When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, "there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now there’s a $2 billion surplus."

By Chris Nichols, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016

Todd Richardson
stated on January 10, 2016 in comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics":

Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."

By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 in a video:

"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 12, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."

By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2016

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