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Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate at Hofstra University:

"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2016 in a speech:

"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2016

Robin Schimminger
stated on August 3, 2016 in a hearing on economic development in Albany, NY.:

On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: "This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that I’ve looked at."

By Dan Clark • August 26, 2016

NowThis
stated on August 10, 2016 in a viral video:

Says President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 11, 2016

Carl Paladino
stated on July 17, 2016 in a conversation with The Buffalo News at the Republican National Convention.:

In Buffalo's SolarCity project, "Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job."

By Dan Clark • August 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2016 in a Reddit Ask Me Anything:

"Youth unemployment is through the roof."

By Adam Thorp • August 4, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

"Our economy is not growing."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 21, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2016 in remarks in Ottawa, Canada:

"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2016

David Perdue
stated on June 2, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily":

"More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history."

By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on March 14, 2016 in an interview with Texas Monthly:

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

By Eleanor Dearman • May 27, 2016

Chris Sgro
stated on May 4, 2016 in a press release:

"We've already lost $500 million in economic impact" from HB2 fallout in North Carolina.

By Will Doran • May 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 in a speech:

Wisconsin’s "effective" unemployment rate is 20 percent.

By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2016

Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 in a political ad:

Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2016 in a news conference:

The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the "largest winery on the East Coast."

By Sean Gorman • March 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2016 in the Miami GOP debate.:

"GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters."

By Linda Qiu • March 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Not one Republican has the guts to recognize that climate change is real."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 10, 2016

Ed Gillespie
stated on January 13, 2016 in a Facebook post.:

"More businesses are closing than opening in Virginia today."

By Warren Fiske • February 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

"We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."

By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016

Roger Williams
stated on January 12, 2016 in response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:

Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

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