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Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on December 21, 2017 radio interview
"We have roughly between 85,000 (and) 95,000 open jobs in Wisconsin."
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By Eric Litke • February 23, 2018
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on January 30, 2018 a post on Rep. Mullin's Facebook page
Under President Barack Obama: 4 million jobs lost, unemployment rose from 7.8% to 9.9%, the S&P 500 was 1,115.1 and the GDP went down 2.8%.  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 a speech in Davos, Switzerland
"Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address
"Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2018 a tweet
"Because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"
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By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2017 White House graphic
"Current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers."  
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By Miriam Valverde • January 23, 2018
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 16, 2018 a Medium post
"In Trump’s first year as president, job growth slowed to a six-year low."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 16, 2018
Brian Kolb
Brian Kolb
stated on December 9, 2017 an op-ed
"New York state spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job-creation programs - more than the combined total of the next three largest states"
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By Dan Clark • January 5, 2018
Chris Ruddy
Chris Ruddy
stated on December 3, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.
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By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2017
Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn
stated on November 4, 2017 a news release
Under Scott Walker, "average wages, when adjusted for inflation, are lower today than they were under Jim Doyle."  
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By Andrew Mollica • November 17, 2017
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on October 22, 2017 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"For the last 10 years, our economy has grown at less than 2 percent on average every single year for 10 years. We have not had a decade like that in a century in America."  
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By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2017
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 22, 2017 An MSNBC interview
Says West Virginia is "down to around 50 percent of the adult workers who are actually working now because of addiction or conviction."
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By Allison Colburn • October 27, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook Live
"Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth."
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By Riley Newton, Tateanna McCaskill • September 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2017 a speech to the United Nations General Assembly
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."
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September 12, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook live conversation
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."
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By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 10, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 a blog post
Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."  
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August 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet
"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet
"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  
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July 27, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin is "dead-last in creating new businesses" for "three years in a row."  
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By Andrew Mollica • July 26, 2017
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