For Labor Day, we recap claims about jobs, wages and labor
By Bill Adair
September 2, 2011
For Labor Day weekend, we review recent claims about jobs, labor and wages.
For Labor Day weekend, we review recent claims about jobs, labor and wages.
We drill into the Texas governor's claims that President Barack Obama "goes to Brazil and delivers $2 billion to that country to help them with their offshore drilling projects.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stumping for president, has revived his description of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, a claim we rated False last year. It seems timely to share fresh reader missives per our judgment.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals named former President Bill Clinton its "Man of the Year," saying "By choosing a plant-based diet, President Clinton has spared the lives of nearly 200 animals a year..."
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., raised concerns about the deadly toll from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, during a trip to Pakistan.
According to an Aug. 28, 2011, Houston Chronicle news report, Gov. Rick Perry isn’t backing off his latest book.
Good to know; "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington" just helped us complete a fact check of Bloomberg pundit Margaret Carlson’s claim about Perry’s stances on Social Security, Medicaid and the federal income tax.
Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty -- the international agreement that prohibits testing of nuclear weapons -- remains a politically contentious issue. With no progress on President Obama promise, we rate this one Broken.
If you live in the districts of New Jersey congressmen Leonard Lance and Jon Runyan, take a closer look at your mail. American Action Network has distributed mailers in theirs and 30 other Congressional districts across the country, criticizing a proposal to make drug manufacturers pay more rebates under Medicare Part D.
With one year to go before the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, we check out the candidates' PolitiFact report cards.
We recently said Marco Rubio was right to claim that the number of workers per retiree in the Social Security system had dropped from 16 to 3. Readers let us have it.
The Texas governor says tort reform brought 21,000 doctors to the state. We rate that False.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, leading the field for the Republican presidential nomination in a recent Gallup poll, recently dispatched a fund-raising letter touching on some claims we’ve reviewed — including the PolitiFact National 2010 Lie of the Year.