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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 2, 2014 a post on his website
New carbon regulations will increase electric bills by "$17 billion every year" and "potentially put an average of 224,000 more people out of work every year."
False
By Steve Contorno • June 2, 2014
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on May 29, 2014 an email blast
Rick Perry doesn’t think there should be a federal minimum wage.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2014
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on May 27, 2014 a radio commercial
Peter Kilmartin voted for the 38 Studios loan guarantee and his State House job was to "twist [legislator’s] arms to vote for deals like this."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 30, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 27, 2014 a meme on social media
"For every one job created under the Obama administration, 75 people went on food stamps."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on May 12, 2014 a fundraising letter
I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 25, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 6, 2014 a report
The Obama administration spent "$205,075 in ‘stimulus’ funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2014
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on May 19, 2014 an interview on "PBS Newshour"
"Today, the five largest financial institutions are 38 percent bigger than they were back in 2008, when they were too big to fail."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • May 22, 2014
Robert Malin
Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 a TV interview
"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014
Jim Francesconi
Jim Francesconi
stated on April 15, 2014 a campaign website statement
"Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash."
False
By Dana Tims • May 16, 2014
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on May 11, 2014 a news story
Dan Branch "once lobbied for the AFL-CIO."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union."
The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014
Nicholas Mattiello
Nicholas Mattiello
stated on April 6, 2014 a television interview
The Pell bridge "is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2014
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 5, 2014 an interview on MSNBC
If you work 40 hours a week at the proposed minimum wage of $10.10 an hour, "you get out of poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on April 25, 2014 a post on his campaign website
Says Rick Scott’s record on jobs includes Florida "ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 1, 2014 a meme shared on social media
"Every single one of the 41 Republican senators who just blocked a raise in the minimum wage will receive a $2,800 cost-of-living adjustment on January 1, 2015."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2014
Tom Corbett
Tom Corbett
stated on April 30, 2014 a radio ad
"On (Tom) Wolf’s watch, taxes were high, killing 100,000 PA jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2014 a weekly address
"The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2014
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on April 22, 2014 a TV ad.
Dave Brat "worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • April 28, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 16, 2014 a radio interview
"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 25, 2014 a meme shared on social media
"Over 300K home owner suicides attributed to foreclosures."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2014
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