Fact Check Posts – Page 4

David Miliband
stated on June 26, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."

By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 21, 2016 a rally in Columbus, Ohio

Says Donald Trump called pregnant employees "an inconvenience."

By Nadia Pflaum • June 24, 2016

Dave Brat
stated on May 24, 2016 Facebook post.

"The labor force participation rate -- the share of the potential workforce that is actually working or looking for work-- currently stands below 63%, the lowest level since the 1970s."

By Sean Gorman • June 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016

Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2016 speaking against Proposition 1 on Austin's May 7, 2016 ballot

"Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on April 28, 2016 an official announcement

North Carolina has "one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country."

By Will Doran • April 29, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2016 Pennsylvania

"Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we’re trying to cure."

By Cassie Owens • March 30, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview

"Virginia now is the number one exporter of (agricultural) products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one."

By Sean Gorman • March 24, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 a campaign rally.

"The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people."

By Sean Gorman • March 14, 2016

Gina Raimondo
stated on January 26, 2016 economic development report

"Owen in MA vs. Owen in RI … Advantage:Rhode Island."

By Mark Reynolds • February 7, 2016

Jerry Brown
stated on January 21, 2016 a State of the State address

"Two million new jobs have been created," in California since 2011.

By Chris Nichols • January 25, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 his State of the Union speech

"Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law."

By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2016

Charlotte Nash
stated on November 17, 2015 a statement

Since 2008, Gwinnett County’s population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.

By Nancy Badertscher • December 11, 2015

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

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

By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015

Russ Feingold
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech

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

August 27, 2015

Glen Sturtevant
stated on August 18, 2015 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."

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 25, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 13, 2015 remarks in Manhattan

Says she "called for addressing risks of derivatives, cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight" early on in the financial crisis.

By Lauren Carroll • July 15, 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."

By Jon Greenberg • July 6, 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."

By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 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."

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2015

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