Latest Fact-Checks In Economy

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 13, 2024 an Instagram post
Kamala Harris voted in favor of passing a law in 2022 to tax tips.
False
August 15, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 2, 2024 a written statement
"Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 28, 2024 an interview on Fox News Sunday
“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 16, 2024 News release
"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2024 a post on Facebook
“Saudi Arabia will stop using the US dollar for oil sales and will not renew the 50-year petro-dollar agreement with the U.S.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 20, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 remarks in Detroit
The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 an interview with Time magazine
“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2024
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 an X post
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2024 an interview with Yahoo Finance
Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2024
Tyler August
Tyler August
stated on May 3, 2024 Newsletter
“Nearly 90% of all UW graduates stay in Wisconsin 5 years after they graduate.”
True
By Sophia Voight • May 15, 2024
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 an interview with MSNBC
Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 a post on X
"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2024 a Facebook post
Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Macy’s, Foot Locker, Gap, Burger King, Regal Cinemas and Kroger have had mass store closures during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Half-True
By Sara Swann • April 24, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 an interview with Fox News
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 a speech
Speaking of semiconductor industry jobs, "Know what the average salary is? $110,000. You don't need a college degree."
Mostly False
April 15, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 an interview with Fox News
Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
Simon Rosenberg
Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 a post on X
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024
Brian Schimming
Brian Schimming
stated on March 13, 2024 Statement
“On Joe Biden’s watch, Wisconsin has lost 6,000 manufacturing jobs and 455 dairy farms in the last year.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • March 20, 2024
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on March 4, 2024 Campaign video
“Since the end of the 2020 fiscal year, President Biden and Senator Baldwin have added over $7.3 trillion of debt, more than the first 228 years of our nation’s history combined.”
Half-True
By Hope Karnopp • March 14, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 9, 2024 a rally in Rome, Georgia
"In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024
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