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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 14, 2018 posts on the Internet:
A post comparing two construction workers — “Joe legal” and “Jose illegal” — says “Jose” pays no taxes yet gets free medical care, food stamps, welfare, and 'head of the class' priority for his children in applying for college.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2020
Cheri Toalson Reisch
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice:
“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”
Mostly True
By Sean Na • March 10, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech:
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 a public forum:
“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”
Mostly True
By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 5, 2020 a CNN town hall:
“We have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on June 21, 2019 a speech:
"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
Half-True
By Steven Murphy, Victoria Gennuso • December 6, 2019
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet:
"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post:
Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."  
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate:
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 a hearing:
"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."  
True
By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post:
"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2019 a press release:
The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 22, 2019 an interview on CBS's "Late Show with Stephen Colbert":
"In America today, women on average are paid 80 cents on the dollar of what men are paid for the same work."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 6, 2019 a tweet:
"99.4% of businesses in Wisconsin are small businesses," and they employ "nearly half of our workforce."
True
By Eric Litke • May 7, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 a rally:
"The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. It’s never been this low before, ever, ever, ever."
True
By Mica Soellner • May 2, 2019
Nikki Bowmar
Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 a comment in a newspaper article:
Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."
Mostly True
By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall:
"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet:
"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet:
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed:
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
True
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
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