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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2020 a Facebook post
“Unemployment now pays $24/hour, even if your wages were lower. Why don’t ‘essential’ people forced to still work get $24, too?”
Half-True
April 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2020 social media
Shows a waitress saying, "I lost my job. But I'll sleep better knowing” that the coronavirus relief bill included funding for the Kennedy Center, refugee resettlement, PBS, and congressional salaries: “Thanks, Democrats”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2020
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on February 14, 2020 a speech
“Right now we have over 40,000 new jobs in a little over 18 months” in Missouri.
False
By Jack Kosowski • March 16, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on February 14, 2020 a tweet
Says President Donald “Trump promised 13,000 new jobs to the people of #Wisconsin. 3 years later, we’re still waiting…”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • March 11, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2020 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020
Cheri Toalson Reisch
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice
“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”
Mostly True
By Sean Na • March 10, 2020
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on January 16, 2020 a tweet
"In #WI, over 44,000 jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • February 26, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 a public forum
“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”
Mostly True
By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 5, 2020 a CNN town hall
“We have an America where … hard-working families have flat wages.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020
"Years of economic decay are over" because Trump "reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 comments at a campaign rally
"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on December 10, 2019 a policy white paper
"Roughly one in four fish eaten in the United States was caught here and sent to Asia for processing before being re-imported for American consumers."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 13, 2019
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on December 1, 2019 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"In Bakersfield, where there’s a lot of oil drilling going on, there’s more solar jobs now in Bakersfield and around that area than there are oil jobs."  
False
By Chris Nichols • December 6, 2019
Woody Thrasher
Woody Thrasher
stated on August 21, 2019 a tweet
"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."
Mostly True
By Alayna Degenhardt, Farrah Frattaroli • December 6, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet
 "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America."
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • November 21, 2019
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet
"Since President (Donald Trump’s) election, 36,000 jobs have been created in WI."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • November 21, 2019
Jack Salzwedel
Jack Salzwedel
stated on October 8, 2019 a public forum
"There’s more African American males in the penal system right now than there were (enslaved) at the height of slavery." 
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 1, 2019
Brian Kolb
Brian Kolb
stated on September 24, 2019 a Tweet
The Buffalo Billion is "still breaking every job promise"
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 29, 2019
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