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X posts
X posts
stated on September 19, 2025 an X post:
Thirty percent of U.S. medical residents are international medical graduates, and 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • October 2, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2025 a post on Facebook:
Former President Joe Biden “fired” 14,000 Keystone XL pipeline workers “​​on day one” of his administration.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • February 26, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 2, 2025 a statement to the media:
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 14, 2024 a speech in California:
Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 7, 2024 a Threads post:
"Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • July 12, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2024 Speech:
“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”
True
By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 12, 2023 an Instagram post:
Quotes House Speaker Mike Johnson as saying, “Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker.”
False
By Grace Abels • November 13, 2023
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on August 21, 2023 a campaign website:
Jim Justice "opposes the Right to Work”
Mostly False
By Madison Ely • October 24, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 29, 2022 an interview:
In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2022
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on October 25, 2022 a debate:
The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 5, 2022
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on December 31, 2021 a year-end press release.:
"Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city."
False
By Analisa Trofimuk • January 31, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says Kellogg’s tweeted, “Oh, so you think it's cool when workers strike jobs? Now replace 'jobs' with 'women.' Still think it's 'cool'?"
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 21, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2021 an Instagram post:
A video shows “your packages were rerouted and have arrived in the port of Miami” as a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 a Facebook post:
“OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 comments at a campaign rally:
"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on January 29, 2020 a speech:
“Over the past year, Illinois has reduced its unemployment rate more than all of the top 20 most populated states in the nation — and more than our Midwestern peers.”
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate:
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
Mostly True
By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet:
"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post:
Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."  
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 3, 2019 news reports:
On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage
No Flip
By D.L. Davis • February 14, 2019
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Latest promises about Labor

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees
No movement on Trump promise to reduce federal workforce with federal hiring freeze since April 2017 | July 15, 2020
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are threatened
Obama never marched with union picketers | December 14, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Hold hospitals and health plans accountable for disparities in care
Significant progress stops short of full data, accountability | December 14, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Improve recruitment of public health workers
Affordable Care Act invests in public health workforce | December 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Promote lifelong retraining
Mixed record for implementing a five-part promise | November 27, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Commission a study on students with disabilities and their transition to jobs or higher education
U.S. Education Department launches disability study | November 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
Goals, timetables on the way | June 20, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers
Still no sign of action | June 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Efforts to reverse Supreme Court ruling have fallen by wayside | February 10, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave
Congress isn’t going for family leave funding | October 25, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year
No indication that Congress will pass the Healthy Families Act | September 30, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act
Family and Medical Leave Act expansion a no-go in Congress | September 30, 2011
Latest promises about Labor