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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 the State of the Union address:
"Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 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 the State of Union address:
During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2014 a Saturday radio address:
"Thanks in part to our all-of-the-above strategy for American energy," the United States generates "more natural gas than anybody."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2014 a speech at North Carolina State University:
"For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world."
True
By Julie Kliegman • January 17, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2014 a Facebook post:
"Unemployment insurance kept more than 620,000 children out of poverty in 2012."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2013 a speech:
"By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family."
True
By Julie Kliegman • December 5, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2013 a speech at the Center for American Progress:
The minimum wage "in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 21, 2013 speeches:
On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees
Full Flop
By Lilly Maier • November 22, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 6, 2013 remarks at a Dallas synagogue:
"A million people … could get health insurance right away" if Texas expanded Medicaid under Obamacare.
True
By Sue Owen • November 8, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 4, 2013 a speech to Organizing for Action:
"What we said was, you can keep (your plan) if it hasn’t changed since the law passed."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 6, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2013 a speech in Boston:
Due to Obamacare, Arkansas "has covered almost 14 percent of its uninsured already."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2013 a public address:
Nearly 6 in 10 uninsured Americans "can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cell phone bill."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 28, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2013 a public address:
"Half of all CEOs say that the shutdown and the threat of shutdown set back their plans to hire over the next six months."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2013 an NPR interview:
"At the time that (Medicare Part D) was passed (it) was actually less popular than the Affordable Care Act, according to the polls."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • October 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2013 a speech at Largo, Md.:
"In states where the federal government helps run these (health care) marketplaces, the average American will have more than 50 different plans to choose from, with different levels of coverage."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 27, 2013 remarks at the White House:
"The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — (voted) to keep our government open."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2013 a speech about the Affordable Care Act:
"Up to half of all Americans have a pre-existing condition."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 27, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 6, 2013 a speech on homeownership:
"We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before."
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2013 a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn.:
"This year, we're off to our best private-sector jobs growth since 1999."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2013
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