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Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet
"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
True
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
Darren Jackson
Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet
"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 a joint statement
Foxconn has already "made a positive impact across Wisconsin with more than 1,000 new jobs."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • February 12, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
West Virginia Democratic Party
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet
"FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office."
Mostly False
By Cade Moisey, Matt Holleran • February 4, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 an op-ed
"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."
Mostly True
By Erica Anderson, Mylana Chico • February 4, 2019
Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
stated on December 9, 2018 an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation
"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 12, 2018
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 28, 2018 a radio interview.
During his governorship: "Every single city and county in Virginia, their unemployment dropped, and in most of the rural communities, it dropped more than 50 percent."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
stated on November 9, 2018 a tweet
"In fact 7 out of 10 new jobs in America are created by small businesses."
True
By Titus Wu • November 19, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 Tweet announcing new bill
Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."
Mostly False
By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on October 25, 2018 a debate
Says a manufacturing operation in his hometown that made gunstock for Remington rifles "closed down, we lost those jobs and it's been devastating for my little town."
Half-True
By Titus Wu • November 5, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 23, 2018 a campaign ad
Says Tony Evers wants to give in-state tuition and drivers licenses to "illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • November 2, 2018
Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on October 20, 2018 an ad
"During the Strickland-Cordray era, taxes were raised by $800 million and Ohio lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2018 an exchange with reporters
Saudi Arabia has ordered $450 billion, "$110 billion of which is a military order," producing "over a million jobs."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2018
Kanye West
Kanye West
stated on October 11, 2018 remarks at the White House
In Wisconsin, Foxconn has "4,000 jobs, people making $53,000 a year."  
Half-True
October 12, 2018
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner
stated on August 27, 2018 a tweet
"Since passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Walmart 'increased their starting wage to $11/hr & has given about $400 million in bonuses.'"
True
By Hannah Archambault, Matthew Hall • October 5, 2018
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2018 a debate.
"The national economy was strong in its largest expansion of private sector jobs before President Trump came into office."  
True
By Warren Fiske • September 25, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018
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