Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:

“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”

By Madeline Heim • June 19, 2021

Glenn Grothman
stated on June 8, 2021 in Twitter:

“We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.”

By Laura Schulte • June 18, 2021

Mark Born
stated on June 2, 2021 in Twitter:

“Before the pandemic, just over 40,000 were on continuing UI claims. Now, there are well over 100,000 on state or federal UI benefits.”

By D.L. Davis • June 18, 2021

Lorraine Lewandrowski
stated on February 24, 2021 in a hearing of the New York Senate Agriculture Committee:

It’s not currently “legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.”

By John Pullano • June 7, 2021

Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:

“Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.”

By Madeline Heim • June 2, 2021

Tim Kaine
stated on May 24, 2021 in an op-ed on CNBC:

“New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement."

By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2021

Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on April 7, 2021 in Twitter:

Wisconsin’s 2019-21 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000, and the governor’s proposed 2021-23 budget would return it to a deficit.

By Madeline Heim • May 25, 2021

Robert Martwick
stated on May 10, 2021 in a podcast interview:

Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 23, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 in an interview:

“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”

By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021

Lindsay James
stated on May 11, 2021 in a tweet:

“There are more job openings than there are people on unemployment" in Iowa.

By Lyle Muller • May 12, 2021

Jeff Jackson
stated on May 3, 2021 in a tweet:

Says he was “one of the 2 (state Senators) who voted against” North Carolina’s body camera law.

By Paul Specht • May 7, 2021

Kevin Kiley
stated on April 26, 2021 in a tweet:

“San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.”

By Chris Nichols • April 29, 2021

Kirk Cox
stated on April 7, 2021 in a radio interview.:

On Virginia’s new marijuana law: “You can have up to one pound with only a $25 fine.”

By Warren Fiske • April 28, 2021

Van Wanggaard
stated on April 19, 2021 in Statement:

Foxconn “is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.”

By Haley BeMiller • April 27, 2021

Zach Wahls
stated on April 8, 2021 in a weekly newsletter:

“The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution."

April 22, 2021

Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 6, 2021 in an interview with The Grio:

“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 in a tweet:

“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”

By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2021 in a Facebook post:

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was the lone vote in the House against an anti-human trafficking bill.

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2021

Tony Evers
stated on March 14, 2021 in TV interview:

“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.

By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2021

Jim Justice
stated on March 4, 2021 in a tweet:

West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years”

By Duncan Slade • March 25, 2021

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