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Tim Lee
stated on June 30, 2015 mass email

Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.

Mostly True

By Nancy Badertscher • July 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 a rally in Portland, Maine

For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 a written statement.

"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • July 13, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on July 12, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"We're destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history."

Half-True

By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2015

American Bridge 21st Century
stated on July 1, 2015 a website posting

Wisconsin’s economy has "tanked" under Gov. Scott Walker and "so far in 2015 over 6,685 people have been laid off, already more than in all of 2014."

False

By James B. Nelson • July 10, 2015

Todd Wilcox
stated on July 8, 2015 a campaign announcement

"More businesses are closing than are opening for the first time in our nation's history."

Half-True

By Joshua Gillin • July 10, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech

"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."

Mostly True

July 8, 2015

Paul Krugman
stated on July 5, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"

"Greece is not a big economy. It's about the size of metropolitan Miami."

True

By Jon Greenberg • July 6, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2015 a post on Twitter

"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson, Miles Adair • June 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 his presidential announcement speech

"When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Japan? It doesn’t exist, folks."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • June 17, 2015

Russ Feingold
stated on June 5, 2015 a speech at the state Democratic Party convention

"The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations."

Half-True

By Lucas Daprile • June 17, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 his presidential announcement speech

"Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don't believe the 5.6. Don't believe it."

False

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 his presidential announcement speech

"The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015

Hunter Schwarz
stated on June 8, 2015 a "Washington Post" article

47 percent of Americans "can’t pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 a news conference

The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."

Mostly True

By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando

Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on May 30, 2015 his presidential announcement speech

"Today in America, 70 percent of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago, and this is the first time that that has happened this side of World War II."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech in Orlando, Fla.

"For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses dying than we do starting."

True

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015

Timothy Sheehy
stated on April 10, 2015 an interview

A 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would "be much better -- in terms of the portion of the public financing -- than most of the other arena projects done around the country."

True

May 29, 2015

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