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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 20, 2016 in a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton:
"80 percent of the American people haven’t gotten a pay raise since the crash."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Miami:
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 in the Fox Business Network debate:
"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on November 10, 2015 in a press release:
California has "robust job growth that outpaces the rest of the nation."  
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • December 7, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.:
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on August 27, 2015 in a blog post:
"The oil and natural gas industry provides or supports 141,600 jobs in Georgia."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • October 16, 2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":
"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 in an Austin City Council meeting:
Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 in a debate:
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 in a rally in Portland, Maine:
For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015
Motion Picture Association of America
Motion Picture Association of America
stated on June 8, 2015 in a press release:
The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • June 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015
Mark Herring
Mark Herring
stated on April 14, 2015 in a Facebook post.:
"By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 20, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on March 10, 2015 in an interview:
Wisconsin is "dead last in the Midwest for job creation."   
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2015
Jalen Ross
Jalen Ross
stated on March 15, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white name resume."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2015
Joseph Yost
Joseph Yost
stated on February 16, 2015 in a floor speech.:
"One third of our age group (Millennials) have moved back in with their parents."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
Lee May
Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 in the 2015 State of the County address:
In the past year, DeKalb has "attracted and retained more than 2,300 jobs."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • February 13, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 13, 2015 in a press release:
Mercedes-Benz USA  moving its headquarters to Atlanta will create at least 800 jobs.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • January 26, 2015
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