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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 13, 2013 in a speech:
Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks "are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature:
"Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • March 3, 2013
Greg Walden
Greg Walden
stated on January 29, 2013 in a Tweet:
Says "Did you know that the #KeystoneXL project is expected to create 20,000 American jobs, including more than 800 in Oregon?"
Mostly False
By Charles Pope • February 27, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on January 28, 2013 in an interview on NJToday:
"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • February 24, 2013
Vincent Fort
Vincent Fort
stated on February 5, 2013 in a Twitter post:
"What concerns me is there is only two sentences that have been written about minority business."
Half-True
By Janel Davis • February 22, 2013
Sarah Eckhardt
Sarah Eckhardt
stated on February 18, 2013 in an email blast.:
Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2013
Dave Joyce
Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on January 23, 2013 in testimony to the Legislature:
Wisconsin’s laws "ranked the worst in the world for mining investment."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • February 15, 2013
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on February 2, 2013 in a campaign rally:
"We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • February 14, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 12, 2013 in the Republican response to the State of the Union Address:
"Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union Address:
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2013
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 17, 2013 in a twitter post:
"Since last year’s address, more than 10,000 jobs created -- many on the high end of the employment scale."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 29, 2013
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech:
A Republican-sponsored Wisconsin mining bill "will take at least seven years to create jobs."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 27, 2013
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on January 8, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says Chris Christie "vetoed" a "jobs package" of "30 bills."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • January 27, 2013
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on January 20, 2013 in his Fox News show:
Under President Barack Obama, "8.3 (million) fewer Americans are working today than there were four years ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech:
"Nearly a quarter of all adults in this state have some college credit without a degree."  
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 21, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 in State of the State address:
"In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010."
True
By Caryn Shinske • January 20, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech:
Kohl’s Department Stores in 2012 "announced the creation of 3,000 new jobs."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • January 19, 2013
Mike Tate
Mike Tate
stated on December 3, 2012 in a blog post:
"Scott Walker has even removed the 250,000 jobs promise from his website."
False
By James B. Nelson • December 17, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 12, 2012 in a speech:
Wisconsin has created "just under 100,000" jobs since he took office.  
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • December 16, 2012
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