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Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on April 8, 2013 a tweet promoting Equal Pay Day
"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 18, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on April 4, 2013 a Texas House floor debate.
Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2013
Ban the Box RI
Ban the Box RI
stated on March 20, 2013 a video posted on YouTube
"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."
True
By Michael McKinney • April 15, 2013
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on April 9, 2013 a TV ad
"Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • April 14, 2013
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on April 10, 2013 an interview with NPR
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2013
Jim Taricani
Jim Taricani
stated on March 24, 2013 a comment made on "10 News Conference."
"No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 8, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 19, 2013 Americans for Prosperity-Florida rally
"Almost 1,000 people a day" are moving to Florida "because they are more free here than they are in some other states."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • April 2, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 a congressional hearing
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Sal Albanese
Sal Albanese
stated on March 24, 2013 a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC
An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2013
Jeff Mullis
Jeff Mullis
stated on March 6, 2013 a meeting
Georgia loses "millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 22, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 15, 2013 a tweet
"Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion."
True
By Tom Feran • March 21, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the conservative CPAC conference
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Ron Book
Ron Book
stated on March 6, 2013 a state legislative committee hearing
"Super Bowl L by everybody's estimation is a $500 million economic impact to the state of Florida."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 14, 2013
Virginia Foxx
Virginia Foxx
stated on March 12, 2013 a House floor speech
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on February 5, 2013 a speech.
"Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • March 12, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 his State of the State speech
A "legacy of taxing and borrowing … crippled the economy we inherited two years ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2013
Carolyn Medeiros
Carolyn Medeiros
stated on February 18, 2013 a radio interview
"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 3, 2013
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on February 25, 2013 an interview on Fox News
Says the federal government is earning more tax revenue now "than any other time."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 28, 2013
Gary Sasse
Gary Sasse
stated on February 10, 2013 an appearance on 10 News Conference
Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 24, 2013
Sarah Eckhardt
Sarah Eckhardt
stated on February 18, 2013 an email blast.
Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2013
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