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Latest Fact-Checks In Pennsylvania

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Tom Wolf
stated on February 22, 2021 in a speech:
“We’re the only major gas-producing state in the US that doesn’t have a severance tax.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • February 25, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on January 19, 2021 in a hearing:
“There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption whatsoever.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • January 21, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on December 27, 2020 in an interview:
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • December 30, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:
“Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • July 24, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020
Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 in a video on Twitter:
“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”
True
By Daniel Funke, Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020
Wendell Young
stated on March 31, 2017 in an op-ed:
House Bill 991 “could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores.”
True
By Cassie Owens • April 7, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on January 4, 2017 in In a tweet:
“Jackie Evancho’s album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her inauguration performance.”
True
By Mark Dent • January 5, 2017
Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on September 21, 2016 in In a political ad:
Says Senate candidate Katie McGinty “made thousands from companies she previously regulated.”
True
By Mark Dent • October 4, 2016
John Taylor
stated on September 13, 2016 in In an interview with City & State PA:
“In Harrisburg, I passed more bills than all the Democrats combined, in terms of legislation affecting the city.”
True
By Mark Dent • September 21, 2016
Josh Shapiro
stated on August 11, 2016 in a platform on his campaign website:
Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.
True
By Anna Orso • August 11, 2016
Katie McGinty
stated on April 28, 2016 in a press release.:
“Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes.”
True
By Anna Orso • April 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2016 in In a statement to Philadelphia magazine:
“A tax on soda and juice drinks would disproportionately increase taxes on low-income families in Philadelphia.”
True
By Mark Dent • April 25, 2016
Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2016 in Pennsylvania:
“Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we’re trying to cure.”
True
By Cassie Owens • March 30, 2016
Jim Kenney
stated on March 10, 2016 in a budget address to City Council:
“When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years.”
True
By Anna Orso • March 10, 2016
John Fetterman
stated on February 1, 2016 in in a Reddit AMA:
 “I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, I’ve got Bernie’s back.”  
True
By Cassie Owens • February 4, 2016