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Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 in a video:

Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015

Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 in a meme on social media:

"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on April 23, 2015 in a monologue on his radio show:

"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on April 20, 2015 in an interview with NPR:

"We're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2015 in a roundtable at a community college:

"The United States invented the community college. Nobody else had ever done anything like it."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2015 in a press conference:

Says Loretta Lynch’s nomination "has been now sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2015

ForAmerica
stated on April 12, 2015 in a meme on social media:

"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on April 14, 2015 in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

"We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery."

True

By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 in a speech to the NRA:

Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 in a town hall in Austin, Texas:

"In this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on March 29, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

In the United States, we’ve had "12 years in a row of wages declining."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on March 25, 2015 in a speech:

The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015

Bloggers
stated on March 21, 2015 in posts on social media:

Say Michelle Obama "mandates" weighing children in day care.

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015

Allen West
stated on March 19, 2015 in a post on his website:

"EPA wants to regulate … the family BBQ."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2015

David Simas
stated on March 18, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

Job growth in the United States is now at the "fastest pace in this country's history."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2015

SeaWorld
stated on March 24, 2015 in an ad:

"Whales live as long at SeaWorld" as they do in the wild.

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2015

Glenn Beck
stated on March 19, 2015 in a Facebook post:

"A few weeks ago Obama took Hamas and Iran OFF the terror list."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on March 15, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"The stock market has almost tripled since April of 2009."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2015

Mitch McConnell
stated on March 15, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

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