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Don Pridemore
Don Pridemore
stated on April 24, 2020 in an interview:
Says Gov. Tony Evers “has never had a real job.”
False
By D.L. Davis • May 8, 2020
Mun Choi
Mun Choi
stated on February 25, 2020 in an email update:
“The facility (NextGen Precision Health Institute) construction alone will bring 3,400 jobs and $472 million in revenue to Missouri.”
Mostly True
By Julia Garlich • April 24, 2020
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on April 4, 2020 in a tweet:
Says 3.5 million U.S. citizens lost their employer-tied health insurance in March, while zero lost their coverage in 20 other large nations combined.
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • April 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Non-essential people get to file for unemployment and make two to three times more than normal,” but essential workers still on the job get no pay raise.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2020 in 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
By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2020 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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