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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on February 12, 2014 a television ad:
"Nonpartisan government analysts say Obamacare will cost our economy up to 2.5 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 14, 2014
Patriot Majority USA
Patriot Majority USA
stated on February 12, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis "supports a plan that would end Medicare as we know it."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2014
Patriot Majority USA
Patriot Majority USA
stated on February 12, 2014 a campaign ad:
North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis would let insurance companies "deny coverage for pre-existing conditions."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on February 9, 2014 a roundtable discussion on "Fox News Sunday":
"Social Security was advocated … in the 1930s as a way of getting people to quit working, because they thought we were confined to a permanent scarcity of jobs in this country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2014
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 4, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"If you have a union job, you're making on average $950 a week. If you have a non-union job, you're making $750 a week."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2014
Mr. Conservative
Mr. Conservative
stated on January 29, 2014 a blog post:
"According to (Barack) Obama’s newest unconstitutionally enacted law, health care professionals are now required to violate HIPAA privacy laws and submit medical data to the government," which is "then used as justification for gun confiscation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 4, 2014 a tweet:
Says President Barack Obama’s health care law is "expected to destroy 2.3 million jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2014
Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
stated on January 29, 2014 a press conference:
Cuba has "a lower child mortality rate than ours. Their life expectancy is now greater than ours."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2014 a response to the State of the Union address:
Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 the State of the Union address:
Women "make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
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 Union address:
During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview on Fox News:
"Forty years ago, hardly anybody in the country had health insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2014 a graphic on the Internet:
"In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2014
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on January 15, 2014 remarks at a news conference:
"Only 3 percent of voters 18 to 34 don't believe that climate change is really happening."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 12, 2014 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 8, 2014 a speech:
Marriage "decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"There are many studies that indicate" that the longer people get unemployment insurance, "it provides some disincentive to work."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
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