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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys:
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 9, 2015 a chain email:
"Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!"
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"92 million Americans aren't working."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit:
"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota:
"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 25, 2015 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
The Affordable Care Act "basically puts a penalty or a tax on employers for every new job they create."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2015
Terry Jeffrey
Terry Jeffrey
stated on January 21, 2015 a column in TownHall.com:
There were more people on welfare than working in 2013.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2015
Andy Puzder
Andy Puzder
stated on January 13, 2015 an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:
"Obamacare has caused millions of full-time jobs to become part-time."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
The economy is "creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:
"Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 20, 2015 the Republican response to the State of the Union address:
"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Wayne. Mich.:
Over the past five years, the American automobile industry has "created about 500,000 new jobs."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 13, 2015 a meme on social media:
Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 a book:
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 7, 2015 a Senate floor speech:
A recent economic uptick appears to "coincide" with "the expectation of a new Republican Congress."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 11, 2014 social media postings:
"Newly Elected Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 1, 2015 a chain email:
New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014 a press conference:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 18, 2014
Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov
stated on December 16, 2014 an interview with the French television network France 24:
"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview with CNN:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014
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