Latest Fact-Checks By Erin O'Neill

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Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on February 24, 2012 in an e-mail newsletter:
"A clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • March 12, 2012
Wayne DeAngelo
Wayne DeAngelo
stated on February 27, 2012 in a Letter to the Editor in The Times of Trenton:
"If we keep the minimum wage at the current level, then single-parent families earning the minimum wage at a full-time job will live in poverty in New Jersey."
True
By Erin O'Neill • March 9, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 in an interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight”:
Says "we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 4, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 23, 2012 in an interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”:
"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 1, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 in his budget speech:
"New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization" of people with developmental disabilities "in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey. "
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • February 26, 2012
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on February 10, 2012 in an interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show”:
Says "67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce."
False
By Erin O'Neill • February 20, 2012
Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on February 7, 2012 in an interview on NJTV:
Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."
True
By Erin O'Neill • February 16, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 31, 2012 in a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5's "Ask the Governor":
"Here's something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America."
False
By Erin O'Neill • February 12, 2012
Committee for Our Children's Future
Committee for Our Children's Future
stated on January 31, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Chris Christie "inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • February 8, 2012
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on January 26, 2012 in an article posted on One New Jersey’s website:
Says New Jersey is "down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak" and with Gov. Chris Christie "New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment" for 12 consecutive months.
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • February 7, 2012
Committee for Our Children's Future
Committee for Our Children's Future
stated on January 25, 2012 in a video ad posted on YouTube:
Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • January 30, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 22, 2012 in an interview on “Meet the Press”:
Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey."
True
By Erin O'Neill • January 29, 2012
Chris Bollwage
Chris Bollwage
stated on January 15, 2012 in a speech at the Cuban Club in Elizabeth:
"Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 27, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on January 17, 2012 in a press release:
"Under this tax cut, middle-class families don't save enough for a week's worth of groceries, while millionaires save enough to go on an exotic vacation."
True
By Erin O'Neill • January 22, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 17, 2012 in a video :
Says "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • January 17, 2012
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on January 9, 2012 in a news conference:
"In 1958, there were 16 states in this country that prohibited -- prohibited -- an African-American and a Caucasian from being married."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • January 15, 2012
Frank Pallone
Frank Pallone
stated on January 5, 2012 in a tweet:
"One year today since #GOP took control of the House" and "no new jobs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 13, 2012
Ronald Rice
Ronald Rice
stated on January 5, 2012 in a state senate budget committee hearing:
Says in Newark "we’re paying 80 percent of the school budget from local property taxes."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 10, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 29, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • January 5, 2012
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