Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Mark Assini
stated on October 18, 2016 in a debate on WROC:

"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."

By Dan Clark • November 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2016 in a rally outside Cleveland:

Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.

By Nadia Pflaum • October 31, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on September 26, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Ron Johnson "helped companies ship jobs overseas."

By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2016

Robin Schimminger
stated on August 3, 2016 in a hearing on economic development in Albany, NY.:

On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: "This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that I’ve looked at."

By Dan Clark • August 26, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on June 14, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Ron Johnson "voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas."

By Alison Dirr • August 26, 2016

NowThis
stated on August 10, 2016 in a viral video:

Says President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2016 in an economic address in Detroit:

"The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2016

Carl Paladino
stated on July 17, 2016 in a conversation with The Buffalo News at the Republican National Convention.:

In Buffalo's SolarCity project, "Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job."

By Dan Clark • August 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 in remarks in Ottawa, Canada:

"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 in a speech:

Wisconsin’s "effective" unemployment rate is 20 percent.

By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

"We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."

By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016

Roger Williams
stated on January 12, 2016 in response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:

Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

Katrina Shankland
stated on November 16, 2015 in a news conference:

Wisconsin "is on pace to double the number of layoffs" this year.

By James B. Nelson • December 21, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Facebook comment:

"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP primary debate.:

"Welders make more money than philosophers."

By Clayton Youngman • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Republican debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases."

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733."

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third Republican presidential debate:

"92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women."

By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2015

Richard Saslaw
stated on October 5, 2015 in a debate.:

Virginia’s current unemployment rate is "the lowest in Virginia history."

By Sean Gorman • October 12, 2015

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