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Latest Fact-Checks On Jeb Bush

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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 1, 2014 in a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event:
"The pass rate for a high school level test to join the military" is 35 to 40 percent.
False
By Amy Sherman • December 9, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 1, 2014 in a 'Wall Street Journal' CEO Council event:
"Too many" tattoos "on visible body parts" keep some applicants out of the military.
True
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 20, 2014 in a speech:
The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 27, 2014 in a fundraising letter:
"1/3 of our kids drop out (of high school), cannot go to college or start a career."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 27, 2014 in a fundraising letter:
"Among the developed nations, we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world."
True
By Joshua Gillin • November 6, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 23, 2014 in an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • July 28, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 12, 2014 in a speech at the Manhattan Institute:
"U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 21, 2014 in public remarks:
"There are over 100 pipelines between the United States and Canada right now."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 21, 2014 in public remarks:
Florida's revenue "is growing at a faster rate than almost any state in the country."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 26, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 27, 2013 in a tweet:
"Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 4, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 30, 2013 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
Says "Canada has one-tenth of our population—yet it issues far more high-skilled visas (more than 150,000) yearly than we do (65,000)."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 14, 2013 in a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference:
"Immigrants are more fertile."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 15, 2013 in a speech at CPAC:
"Already, a prototype driverless car has traveled more than 300,000 miles in the crowded maze of California streets without a single accident."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 5, 2013 in in his book 'Immigration Wars':
"Nearly 65 percent -- almost two-thirds -- of all new permanent residents obtained that status by virtue of their family status."
True
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 30, 2012 in a convention speech:
"In Massachusetts, Gov. Romney narrowed the gap between students of different races."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • August 31, 2012
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 26, 2012 in an interview on 'Meet the Press.':
"If you look at the number of illegal immigrants coming into the country, it is net zero. It's been that way now for almost two years."
True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2012
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 9, 2011 in an opinion article in the 'Miami Herald':
"A record number of Hispanics were elected to the U.S House of Representatives..."
Mostly True
By Laura Figueroa • January 13, 2011
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 3, 2011 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.:
"In 1998, nearly half of Florida's fourth-graders were functionally illiterate. Today, 72% of them can read."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 3, 2011
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 14, 2010 in an interview with his brother, former President George W. Bush, on CNN.:
"Rick Scott got a majority of the Hispanic vote in Florida."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 15, 2010
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2010 in a campaign commercial for Bill McCollum:
Bill McCollum has "recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud."
True
By Laura Figueroa • June 14, 2010
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