Fact Check Posts – Page 7

John Kitzhaber
stated on May 7, 2014 an email to supporters:

"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected."

By Dana Tims, Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2014

Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union.":

The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."

By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014

Neera Tanden
stated on April 27, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"95 percent of the income gains in the last few years have gone to the top 1 percent."

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on April 16, 2014 a radio interview:

"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."

By Dave Umhoefer • April 27, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release:

"In Wisconsin, a woman only earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns."

By Tom Kertscher • April 23, 2014

Genevieve Wood
stated on April 8, 2014 comments on CNN:

"Young women today in metropolitan areas" who are childless and single are out-earning childless, single young males.

By Aaron Sharockman • April 9, 2014

Rick Scott
stated on March 31, 2014 an online ad:

"Since December 2010 Florida has created 540,000 new jobs."

By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014

Steven Rattner
stated on March 30, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Manufacturing wages today in America on a per-hour basis are actually a bit lower than average wages in the economy as a whole."

By Katie Sanders • March 30, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview:

"Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isn’t even using the funds that are appropriated to it."

By James B. Nelson • March 23, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2014 a speech to the Democratic National Committee in Boston:

"When I talk about (raising the) minimum wage ... half of Republicans agree with it."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on February 27, 2014 an event at the White House:

"Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men."

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on January 30, 2014 a speech:

"Most folks’ wages haven’t gone up in over a decade."

By Tom Kertscher • February 23, 2014

David Cicilline
stated on February 11, 2014 a House floor speech:

"According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 21, 2014

Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on February 4, 2014 a news release:

"The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary."

By Tom Kertscher • February 14, 2014

Kasim Reed
stated on January 31, 2014 a speech:

"Right now, we only keep 50 percent of Georgia Tech's graduates."

By Eric Stirgus • February 11, 2014

Keith Ellison
stated on February 9, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Americans work way more than an average of industrialized countries around the world."

By Julie Kliegman • February 9, 2014

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 the State of the Union address:

Women "make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns."

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014

Chris Christie
stated on January 14, 2014 a State of the State address:

"Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years."

By Caryn Shinske • January 19, 2014

Rana Foroohar
stated on January 10, 2014 a CNN interview:

"The median male worker in this country has not seen a raise, inflation adjusted, for 30 years, basically."

By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2014

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