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Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on November 9, 2014 an interview:
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.  
True
By Tom Kertscher • November 28, 2014
Robert Healey
Robert Healey
stated on November 5, 2014 interviews:
I spent only $36.29 on my campaign for governor.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 9, 2014
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on October 26, 2014 a TV debate:
"We have the third-lowest minimum wage … of developed countries."
True
By Alex Kuffner • November 1, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 14, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says Rick Scott changed his promise from 700,000 jobs created "on top of what normal growth would be" to just 700,000 jobs.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 14, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on July 18, 2014 a campaign TV ad:
"Wisconsin’s dead last in Midwest job growth."
True
By Dave Umhoefer, James B. Nelson • August 31, 2014
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on August 7, 2014 a campaign ad:
"Before I was state treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • August 21, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 30, 2014 a tweet:
"Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year."  
True
By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2014
Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson
stated on July 18, 2014 a campaign debate:
"It's been 17 years that we've had unemployment higher than the national average in Oregon."
True
By Dana Tims • August 4, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 a newspaper commentary:
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
Alicia Menendez
Alicia Menendez
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"A white family is likely to have about six times as much wealth than a black or Hispanic family coming out of the recession."
True
By Julie Kliegman • April 27, 2014
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on March 25, 2014 congressional testimony.:
"From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total federal personnel decreased by 15 percent."  
True
By Nancy Madsen • April 14, 2014
Seneca Jones
Seneca Jones
stated on March 2, 2014 newspaper ads:
Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: "Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?"
True
By Dana Tims • March 14, 2014
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on March 2, 2014 a television ad:
Says "Bill Clinton and George Bush both say build the Keystone XL."
True
By Steve Contorno • March 5, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on January 27, 2014 a news release:
Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island "only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family."  
True
By John Hill • February 14, 2014
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 22, 2014 a news release:
"Over 3 million Americans are employed in the growing green-collar workforce," which is more than the number "of people working in the fossil fuel industry."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • February 14, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 the State of Union address:
During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
Steven King
Steven King
stated on January 5, 2014 a TV interview:
"We’ve had the private sector more than double the investment that was made by the public sector" at Quonset Business Park.
True
By John Hill • January 22, 2014
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 15, 2014 a speech:
"(M)ore Georgians have jobs than at any other time since October 2008."
True
By Eric Stirgus, Nancy Badertscher • January 21, 2014
Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Our economy still has three people looking for every job (opening)."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on December 4, 2013 a talk to the Human Services Coalition of Oregon:
"60 percent of the jobs lost in the 2008 recession were living-wage jobs. Of the jobs we’ve gotten back, only 40 percent are living-wage."
True
By Dana Tims • December 20, 2013
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