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Latest Fact-Checks In Economy

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Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 in a White House briefing:
“We’re setting record job numbers.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs.”
Mostly False
By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020
Dan Bishop
stated on April 24, 2020 in an interview:
“Half the workforce in the country may have just been idled” by coronavirus.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • May 20, 2020
Instagram posts
stated on May 19, 2020 in an Instagram post:
“A lot of people can get an additional $2,400” from the CARES Act “and they can do it every month!”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020
Tom McClintock
stated on April 29, 2020 in an interview on CapRadio's Insight program.:
“The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year according to the CDC.”
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 5, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 in a speech:
Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 in a rally in San Antonio, Texas.:
“I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression.”  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2019
Brian Treece
stated on October 17, 2019 in a press conference:
Columbia, Mo., is “one of the fastest growing cities in the region, the only city in the state to grow jobs faster than the nation as a whole.”
Mostly False
By Libby Stanford • November 16, 2019
Kevin Brady
stated on October 7, 2019 in a tweet:
Says the Associated Press was wrong to report that “Income Inequality grew to largest in 50 years” because in a “new Census report all four measures of income inequality SHRUNK, reversing rise over past five decades.”
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • October 12, 2019
Ron Johnson
stated on July 15, 2019 in a tweet:
“Republican policies have led to business investment growth that’s 10 times faster than what we saw under President Obama.”
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • October 9, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.:
China has “had now the worst year in 57 years.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • September 10, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 in remarks to South Korean business leaders:
“We hadn’t had a (car) plant built in years — in decades, actually. And now we have many plants being built all throughout the United States.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019
Charles Payne
stated on June 17, 2019 in a TV appearance:
“When President Obama was elected, the market crashed … Trump was up 9%, President Obama was down 14.8% and President Bush was down almost 4%. There is an instant reaction on Wall Street.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2019
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 in a congressional hearing:
“In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald’s worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Scott Walker
stated on January 16, 2019 in a tweet:
During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, “revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • February 5, 2019
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on January 9, 2019 in a tweet:
“FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office.”
Mostly False
By Cade Moisey, Matt Holleran • February 4, 2019
Kamala Harris
stated on January 27, 2019 in a campaign launch event:
“The cost of living is going up, but paychecks aren’t keeping up.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2019
David McKinley
stated on October 31, 2018 in a debate:
“Last year we had the eighth fastest-growing economy in the country in West Virginia.”
Mostly False
By Patrick Orsagos, Zack Schwehm • November 29, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 in Tweet announcing new bill:
Says middle class taxpayers “subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year.”
Mostly False
By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
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