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David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on February 11, 2014 in a House floor speech:
"According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 21, 2014
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on January 31, 2014 in a speech:
The annual gross domestic product of metro Atlanta is "bigger than 28 states in the union."
True
By Eric Stirgus • February 18, 2014
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
stated on February 16, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Two-thirds of the people who start out in minimum wage are above the minimum wage within a year."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • February 16, 2014
Jonathan Boucher
Jonathan Boucher
stated on January 31, 2014 in a Providence Journal commentary:
"The Republican leadership in the House has refused to address the issues that matter the most to Rhode Island, such as passing a jobs bill."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 16, 2014
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on February 4, 2014 in a news release:
"The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 14, 2014
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on February 12, 2014 in a television ad:
"Nonpartisan government analysts say Obamacare will cost our economy up to 2.5 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 14, 2014
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on January 27, 2014 in a news release:
Of minimum wage workers in Rhode Island "only 14 percent serve as sole income earner for their family."  
True
By John Hill • February 14, 2014
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 22, 2014 in a news release:
"Over 3 million Americans are employed in the growing green-collar workforce," which is more than the number "of people working in the fossil fuel industry."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • February 14, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 9, 2014 in a roundtable discussion on "Fox News Sunday":
"Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2014
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on January 31, 2014 in a speech:
"Right now, we only keep 50 percent of Georgia Tech's graduates."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • February 11, 2014
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on February 4, 2014 in a news release.:
"The CBO’s latest report confirms what Republicans have been saying for years now. Under Obamacare, millions of hardworking Americans will lose their jobs."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • February 7, 2014
Gretchen Carlson
Gretchen Carlson
stated on February 4, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "The Real Story":
"The CBO now says the president's health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2014
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on January 15, 2014 in his state of state speech:
"Since I took office in January 2011, we have created 11,100 Rhode Island-based jobs."
Half-True
By John Hill • February 2, 2014
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on January 13, 2014 in a speech.:
Virginia is "the No. 1 recipient of federal dollars."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • January 31, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2014 in a response to the State of the Union address:
Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in State of the Union address:
"For the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world’s No. 1 place to invest; America is."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of the Union address:
"The federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan" gave his first address to a joint session of Congress.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 29, 2014
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on January 28, 2014 in the Republican response to the State of the Union address:
"Last month, more Americans stopped looking for a job than found one."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of the Union address:
There is "more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that’s happened in nearly 20 years."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of Union address:
During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
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