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Ed Gillespie
stated on June 2, 2014 a TV interview.:

The Chamber of Commerce says new carbon regulations will kill "244,000 jobs a year" and cost average families "$1,200 a year."

False

By Warren Fiske • June 9, 2014

Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on June 8, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Only one out of 10 minimum wage workers today are teen age or a young person."

False

By Katie Sanders • June 8, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on June 2, 2014 a TV commercial:

Ken "Block supports Obamacare."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 8, 2014

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on June 3, 2014 a radio ad:

"Sen. McConnell says it's not his job to bring jobs to Kentucky."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • June 6, 2014

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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