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Jason Smith
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."

Mostly True

By Olivia Garrett • February 21, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 in a congressional hearing:

"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019

Phil Scott
stated on January 24, 2019 in his budget address in the Statehouse.:

"Every county, including Chittenden, has fewer people available for work."

False

By Colin Meyn, Felippe Rodrigues • January 26, 2019

Andrew Cuomo
stated on December 17, 2018 in a speech:

New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.

True

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 7, 2019

Kanye West
stated on October 11, 2018 in remarks at the White House:

In Wisconsin, Foxconn has "4,000 jobs, people making $53,000 a year."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • October 12, 2018

Ann Wagner
stated on August 27, 2018 in a tweet:

"Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Walmart 'increased their starting wage to $11/hr & has given about $400 million in bonuses.'"

True

By Hannah Archambault, Matthew Hall • October 5, 2018

Marsha Blackburn
stated on September 25, 2018 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:

Under Phil Bredesen, in sexual harassment cases, his administration chose "to shred some of the documents so that women’s voices would never be heard."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 2018

Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 in a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.:

Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"

Mostly True

By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 31, 2018 in a TV ad:

"New reports show Kevin Nicholson made over $1 million advising companies that shut down Wisconsin plants and laid off 1,900 people."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2018

Matt Flynn
stated on April 12, 2018 in a TV interview:

Says Foxconn "is under investigation in mainland China for securities fraud, environmental fraud and labor fraud."

Mostly False

By Ahmed Elbenni • July 31, 2018

Randy Bryce
stated on March 14, 2018 in an interview:

"Our campaign staff was the first to unionize in the history of politics."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • April 25, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 in remarks before a Cabinet meeting:

"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on January 17, 2018 in a tweet:

"When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn’t need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere."

Mostly False

By Eric Litke • March 7, 2018

Patrick Morrisey
stated on February 21, 2018 in a tweet:

"The impending work stoppage is unlawful."

True

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in his State of the Union address:

"After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in the State of the Union speech:

"Since we passed tax cuts, over 3 million workers have gotten tax cut bonuses — many of them thousands and thousands of dollars."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2018

Kayleigh McEnany
stated on December 27, 2017 in an interview:

"Come February (2018), Americans will see their paychecks grow at the tune of saving $1,000 or more a year."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • January 10, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on December 8, 2017 in a statement released by her office:

"Even with full control of the House, Senate and White House, Republicans have still failed to deliver on their promise of higher wages for working families."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2017

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on November 19, 2017 in an interview:

Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."

Mostly False

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • November 29, 2017

Mike Collier
stated on October 31, 2017 in an email blast:

"Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2017

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