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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":

"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015

Glenn Hegar
stated on September 10, 2015 in a speech in Georgetown, Texas:

"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 in a press conference:

The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 in an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert:

"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015

Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 in an Austin City Council meeting:

Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 in remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention:

"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 in a speech.:

"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate:

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 8, 2015 in a tweet:

"Jeb's policies in Florida helped lead to its almost total collapse."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • September 15, 2015

Club for Growth
stated on September 15, 2015 in a TV ad in Iowa:

Says Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 8, 2015 in a campaign video:

"Florida led the nation in job creation" while Bush was governor.

Half-True

By Joshua Gillin • September 10, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2015 in an interview with Sarah Palin:

"We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they're considered employed."

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2015

Russ Feingold
stated on August 18, 2015 in a speech:

Says Ron Johnson "opposes entirely a federal minimum wage," except perhaps for "guest workers."

True

By Tom Kertscher • August 27, 2015

Glen Sturtevant
stated on August 18, 2015 in a candidates' forum.:

"Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi."

True

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 25, 2015

Rachel Maddow
stated on July 13, 2015 in a television show:

Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country."

False

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • August 24, 2015

Bill Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 in an interview with Inc. magazine:

"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015

Georgia Department of Economic Development
stated on July 9, 2015 in a press release:

Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgia’s economy in the most recent fiscal year.

Half-True

By April Hunt • August 7, 2015

John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 in a town hall in Nashua, N.H.:

"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015

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