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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
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
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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