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Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

"The majority of women are minimum wage workers."

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019

Daniel Riemer
stated on February 17, 2019 in a TV interview:

"About 80 percent of (the manufacturing and agriculture) tax credit goes to claimants who are making $1 million or more."

True

By Mica Soellner • April 4, 2019

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on February 6, 2019 in a tweet:

"We have more women in the workforce than ever before."

Half-True

By Samantha Patrick • March 27, 2019

Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 in 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
stated on February 26, 2019 in 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
stated on January 14, 2019 in 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
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019

Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 in 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
stated on February 7, 2019 in 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
stated on January 9, 2019 in 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
stated on January 3, 2019 in 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
stated on December 9, 2018 in 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
stated on November 28, 2018 in 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
stated on November 9, 2018 in 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
stated on November 15, 2018 in 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
stated on October 25, 2018 in 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
stated on October 23, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says Tony Evers wants to give in-state tuition and drivers licenses to "illegal aliens."

Mostly True

By Eric Litke, Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2018

Mike DeWine
stated on October 20, 2018 in 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
stated on October 20, 2018 in 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

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