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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on June 17, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

Half-True

By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 in a congressional hearing:

"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on January 28, 2019 in remarks in Fort Lauderdale:

"There was virtually no new business investment" after the 2017 tax law. "The bulk was used to buy back their own stock."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019

Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 19, 2018 in a radio interview:

"There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects."

True

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 7, 2018

Kathy Manning
stated on October 23, 2018 in a debate:

"I'm not taking any corporate PAC money."

Half-True

By Will Doran • October 28, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 22, 2018 in a speech:

Under the Republican tax reform law, "83 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent of individuals and large multinational corporations."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 20, 2018 in a TV ad:

"2.4 million people in Wisconsin have pre-existing conditions" and Leah Vukmir supports letting insurance companies "deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 10, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2018

Jeff Williams
stated on September 12, 2018 in a speech:

The new Apple Watch Series 4 includes "the first ECG product offered over-the-counter directly to consumers."

False

By Chris Nichols • September 14, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 31, 2018 in a TV ad:

"New reports show Kevin Nicholson made over $1 million advising companies that shut down Wisconsin plants and laid off 1,900 people."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2018

Matt Flynn
stated on December 23, 2017 in interviews, news releases:

On whether he would seek to undo the Foxconn deal.

Full Flop

By D.L. Davis • August 2, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 14, 2018 in a speech:

"The three wealthiest people" own "more wealth than the bottom half of the American people."

True

By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on April 22, 2018 in an appearance on UpFront with Mike Gousha:

Says Wisconsin ‘could compel’ Foxconn to install solar panels that would power 33,000 homes.

Mostly False

By Eric Litke • June 6, 2018

Bloggers
stated on February 23, 2017 in in a blog post:

"Starbucks CEO: ‘If You Support Traditional Marriage We Don’t Want Your Business’"

False

By Bill McCarthy • June 5, 2018

Tim Burns
stated on February 6, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says he is "one of America's leading consumer lawyers."

False

By Tom Kertscher • February 15, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on January 11, 2018 in a tweet:

Says Paul Soglin took Madison backward -- "businesses have left and murders have gone up."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • January 31, 2018

Paul Ryan
stated on September 1, 2017 in an interview:

"We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2017

Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 in an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • September 12, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 in an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • September 6, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on July 28, 2017 in an interview:

Says Foxconn didn't keep a promise to build a plant in Pennsylvania because "Pennsylvania changed governors."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • August 25, 2017

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