Latest Fact Checks By James B. Nelson

Julie Lassa says infant mortality rate is 15 percent higher in states with right-to-work laws

By James B. Nelson

March 5, 2015

The infant mortality rate is 15 percent higher in states with right-to-work laws.

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Business leader says 95 percent of union-worker training money comes from employers

By James B. Nelson

February 27, 2015

Ninety-five percent of the money used for union-operated worker training centers comes from employers.

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Columnist Gail Collins blames Gov. Scott Walker for teacher’s lost job

By James B. Nelson

February 17, 2015

Says award-winning Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off because Gov. Scott Walker cut state aid to education.

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Gov. Scott Walker says Wisconsin’s ‘teacher of the year’ was laid off due to union contract

By James B. Nelson

February 16, 2015

The woman named Wisconsin’s 2010 "outstanding teacher of the year" was laid off by the Milwaukee Public Schools that year under "seniority and tenure rules"…

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Ald. Joe Davis claims streetcar project would take revenue from Milwaukee Public Schools

By James B. Nelson

February 3, 2015

The streetcar project proposed for downtown Milwaukee "would actually take precious revenue away" from the Milwaukee Public Schools.

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Rep. Jim Steineke says Milwaukee streetcar would be ‘1900s style trolley’

By James B. Nelson

January 16, 2015

The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley."

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Milwaukee’s NBA team is younger than Marquette University team, Milwaukee Bucks exec says

By James B. Nelson

January 9, 2015

The Milwaukee Bucks are "actually younger than the Marquette team."

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Anti casino group Enough Already claims most revenue from Kenosha casino would go to Florida

By James B. Nelson

November 20, 2014

The majority of revenue generated by a proposed Kenosha casino would be sent to the Seminole tribe in Florida.

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Rock singer Bob Seger says Gogebic mine would be built without government oversight

By James B. Nelson

November 10, 2014

The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.

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Scott Walker says September job growth is largest September increase in over a decade

By James B. Nelson

October 29, 2014

Figures for September 2014’s job growth in Wisconsin mark the "largest private-sector job creation we've had in the month of September in more than a…

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Americans for Prosperity says workers are getting high-paying mining jobs because of Scott Walker

By James B. Nelson

October 16, 2014

"Under the administration of Gov. Scott Walker, northern Wisconsin’s mining economy is moving forward and more people are getting good, high-paying jobs."

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Mary Burke says job growth has gotten worse every year of Scott Walker’s term

By James B. Nelson

October 8, 2014

Job creation has gotten worse each year that Scott Walker has been governor.

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