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Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on January 17, 2011 comments at the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.
"92 percent" of President Barack Obama's administration has "never worked outside government."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • January 20, 2011
Robert Flanders
Robert Flanders
stated on December 17, 2010 an economic forum
"Every dropout costs us $72,000 for the life of that person."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 16, 2011
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on December 29, 2010 an op-ed
"On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent."
Mostly True
January 15, 2011
Brent Larkin
Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 a newspaper column
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."
True
By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011
David Wyss
David Wyss
stated on December 13, 2010 a newspaper article
State governments have little ability to stimulate job growth in the short run.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 5, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on December 14, 2010 a news conference
"Ohio has lost more population than every other state in the country except for two."
False
By Reginald Fields • January 5, 2011
Marie Ghazal
Marie Ghazal
stated on December 17, 2010 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Rhode Island has the highest percentage of uninsured adults of any state in New England."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 4, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on December 20, 2010 an interview with The Plain Dealer
"We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down."
True
By Reginald Fields • January 3, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 20, 2010 a message via the Internet
Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 22, 2010
Bumper Sticker
Bumper Sticker
stated on December 20, 2010 Washington, D.C.
"CEOs now earn 431 times what their workers earn."
Half-True
By Martha M. Hamilton • December 21, 2010
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on December 12, 2010 a television interview
Right-to-work states "have higher rates of income growth."
Half-True
December 17, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 9, 2010 a CNN interview
The tax cut deal is giving "$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires."
False
By Stephen Koff • December 15, 2010
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 12, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"Barack Obama is in an economy that's only worsened since he's been president of the United States."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2010
Mark Brodeur
Mark Brodeur
stated on December 2, 2010 a Providence Journal story
Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 12, 2010
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 30, 2010 a Senate floor speech
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 10, 2010
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 6, 2010 a floor speech.
The national debt grew an estimated $15 billion last weekend.
True
By Wes Hester • December 9, 2010
Jim Zehringer
Jim Zehringer
stated on November 16, 2010 a news conference
"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."
True
By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 6, 2010 a press conference
Says the military accounts for about 10 percent of Florida's economy.
True
By Aaron Sharockman • December 7, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on December 4, 2010 the Senate floor
"The senior senator from Arizona (John McCain) said he couldn't support repealing 'don't ask, don't tell' because of the economy."
Half-True
December 6, 2010
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