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Feministing
Feministing
stated on June 21, 2017 a web post
"Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control."
Pants on Fire!
By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 27, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on August 6, 2017 a TV interview
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin is "still 16,000 manufacturing jobs lower than we were during the recession."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • August 30, 2017
Alex Castellanos
Alex Castellanos
stated on August 20, 2017 comments on ABC's 'This Week'
"(For) white working-class America, death rates among white men are up 20 percent."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters
Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on May 2, 2017 her book "Women Who Work"
"40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • May 3, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a speech
"We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization."  
Mostly True
April 19, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on February 8, 2017 a television interview
"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so clear that this is going to lead to more jobs and higher pay for the people of Missouri."
Half-True
By Allison Colburn • April 6, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 9, 2015 a post shared on Facebook
Government orders South African firm "to lay off 3,389 white employees."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2017
Social Media
Social Media
stated on March 6, 2017 social media posts
"It's important to pay attention to the Russian spy drama, but let's not ignore the fact that the following (10) bills have been introduced" in the House.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2017
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 26, 2017 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says "Donald Trump wants to eliminate overtime pay for people." 
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • February 26, 2017
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on February 15, 2017 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2017
John Patrick
John Patrick
stated on January 12, 2017 a Texas Capitol press conference
"If you have a family, the current minimum wage easily qualifies you for food stamps."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 11, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 23, 2017 the daily press briefing
There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 12, 2016 an interview
Fifty percent of workers ages 55 to 64 have "zero" money "in the bank as they enter retirement."
Half-True
December 21, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 2, 2016 a radio interview.
"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."
True
By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2016 a rally in Atkinson, N.H.
"Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2016
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on September 30, 2016 a press release
Says Chris Koster "opposes right-to-work efforts because he has taken $8 million from ‘union bosses.’"
Half-True
By Erika Stark • November 3, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 31, 2016 remarks in Cocoa Beach, Fla.
"One in five American households have nobody under the same roof that's got a job."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2016
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross
stated on October 13, 2016 a TV ad
"Richard Burr voted to protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas but voted against a tax break to help working people."
Half-True
By Will Doran • November 2, 2016
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