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Statement: Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: February 5, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Cantor said job longevity has diminished over the last 20 years. "It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company," he said. "Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for  four years." The majority leader was referring to 2012 BLS figures that show the median length of time U.S. workers 16 and older had spent with their employer was 4.6 years. The problem with this statistic is that young workers don’t stay at jobs very long and don’t view their labor as careers. The mean tenure of workers 25 and older was 5.4 years. In either case, tenure has actually increased over the last two decades. It has actually risen by one year if we consider workers 16 and older, and by more than half a year if we consider workers 25 and older. The bottom line: There’s some accuracy in Cantor’s estimate of how many years workers stay at their jobs. But he’s off target on his his major point -- that longevity at companies has decreased over the last 20 years. All told, we rate Cantor’s statement .
Statement: Says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.
Speaker: kim guadagno
About the speaker: Kim Guadagno is the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey.
Date: May 11, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a radio interview on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show
Fact-check justification: Let’s review. Guadagno claimed BRRAG helped Panasonic stay in New Jersey. Panasonic said BRRAG wasn’t a factor in the company’s decision and the state EDA confirmed Panasonic is not eligible for any tax credits through that program. We rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, join the conversation at NJ.com .
Statement: A company hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can.
Speaker: charles van zant
About the speaker: Rep. Charles Van Zant is a Republican representing District 19. He is an architect from Keystone Heights who was first elected to the House in 2008.
Date: March 22, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;education;lgbtq
Context: March publicized May 16 by Think Progress
Fact-check justification: A firm hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can," Van Zant said. The firm hired to do testing, AIR, separately provides information to entities that request it to help them assist LGBT students. Currently, the federal government accesses AIR’s information but the organization doesn’t have such a contract with the state of Florida or any Florida districts. We found no  that when AIR administers tests in Florida that the testing process will involve recruiting students to become gay. Van Zant takes a somewhat limited connection between the testing company and gay and lesbian issues and then blows it up into a wild  that lacks . We rate this .
Statement: Says proposed anti-abortion legislation "would force women facing the most personal of health decisions to endure a transvaginal ultrasound.
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: July 14, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: an emailed statement
Fact-check justification: "If it is very early in the pregnancy, to see if there is a living embryo, you would need a transvaginal ultrasound," Harrison said, adding that the internal procedure would be needed to accurately date a pregnancy in the first nine weeks. The statement by the Ohio Democratic Party implies that all women seeking abortions would be forced to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. Women seeking abortions would have to undergo some form of ultrasound, and many women seeking early-term abortions could face the internal procedure. But the Ohio Democratic Party did not clarify the circumstances. We rate its  .
Statement: When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare's exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: June 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The White House chose to cite a report that has been updated by the CBO following significant legislation affecting its predictions. To make its case that the CBO is unreliable, the Trump administration cherry-picked a statistic that CBO got the most . The forecasters were closer to actual results on other major components of Obamacare, including Medicaid and employer changes. We rate this statement . Editor's note:  We've updated this fact-check to clarify a point about the difference between CBO's projections and actual exchange enrollment.
Statement: Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average.
Speaker: bill foster
About the speaker: Bill Foster was elected mayor of St. Petersburg in 2009. He is a former St. Petersburg City Council member.
Date: October 15, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate
Fact-check justification: St. Petersburg’s unemployment rate is a little bit better than the state average, according to the most recent data we have from the state and federal government. It’s been the case for most of the year. Is it substantially better? No. And experts cautioned that the numbers we have are not the best. Still, they’re the best we have. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama was "furious" that he was caught on camera holding a pro-Muslim book.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 4, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It is about the great transformation taking place around the world, a transformation that, though often discussed, remains poorly understood." A Publishers Weekly review of the book called it "a stimulating, largely optimistic forecast of where the 21st century is heading," saying that Zakaria "predicts that despite its record of recent blunders at home and abroad, America will stay strong, buoyed by a stellar educational system and the influx of young immigrants, who give the U.S. a more youthful demographic than Europe and much of Asia whose workers support an increasing population of unproductive elderly." The New York Times Sunday Book Review said the book is "a relentlessly intelligent book that eschews simple-minded projections from crisis to collapse … Zakaria’s is not another exercise in declinism. His point is not the demise of Gulliver, but the ‘rise of the rest.’ "  We rate this post .
Statement: Images show "Putin has been arrested.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 26, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That’s likely a limitation of artificial intelligence, which struggles to capture the human hand . PolitiFact noted that flaw in a recent fact-check of images that purported to show the arrest of former President Donald Trump, which also hasn’t happened. With Trump facing possible indictment and the arrest warrant issued for Putin, AI-generated images of both leaders being arrested have proliferated online, with people using increasingly sophisticated software to create realistic-looking images, according to The Associated Press . Putin may one day be arrested. But we rate the  that these photos show his arrest .
Statement: Says Joe Manchin displayed an "unwillingness to change the failed Obamacare.
Speaker: patrick morrisey
About the speaker: Patrick Morrisey is the attorney general of West Virginia. Morrisey is running for the West Virginia U.S. Senate seat.
Date: May 11, 2018
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Morrisey said Manchin displayed an "unwillingness to change the failed Obamacare." Manchin did oppose the various Republican-led repeal efforts, but he has worked actively to promote incremental changes to Obamacare — not only rhetorically but also by backing bipartisan bills intended as efforts to modify Obamacare without scuttling it. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: military;veterans
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: ... So, for all the sacrifices that you've made, I want to say thank you." The chain e-mail that purports to be Obama's comments on troops is maliciously . It's particularly egregious for trying to ply veterans with  information. We rate this one !
Statement: Says Obama flip-flopped on banning handguns.
Speaker: let freedom ring
About the speaker: Let Freedom Ring is a conservative group.
Date: July 24, 2008
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a TV ad airing on cable networks such as Fox and MTV
Fact-check justification: But what about D.C.'s outright ban of guns? Obama not only didn't correct Harris' characterization of support for the D.C. gun ban, his answer seemed to affirm that it was accurate. At the very least, if Harris was , here was the perfect opportunity to set the record straight. By and large, Obama's fence-sitting has been pretty consistent. Still, twice claiming an aide botched your position and failing to go on record even when directly asked about it gives the flip-flopping charge enough ammo to merit a .
Statement: In Virginia, we actually do protect same-sex marriage.
Speaker: glenn youngkin
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
Date: July 10, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: families;legal issues;lgbtq;sexuality
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: But it is superseded by the state constitution that specifically bans such unions, a provision that the Republican-led House stood by earlier this year. Should the high court reverse its 2015 ruling, as Thomas would like to see, same-sex marriage in Virginia would instantly end. Younkin told viewers of "Face the Nation" a small piece of the story. Although Virginia allows gay marriage, the state law he cites as protecting it is meaningless.   We rate Youngkin’s statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump was "caught investing in (the) Dakota Pipeline before signing it.
Speaker: learnprogress.org
About the speaker: A left-leaning website that advocates for "a progressive America."
Date: February 8, 2017
Topics: climate change;energy;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: He did sign an executive action on Jan. 24 to get the pipeline moving again . Construction resumed on Feb. 9 , and the Standing Rock Sioux tribe challenged the pipeline in court on Feb. 14 . The headline’s assertion that Trump was caught in some kind of wrongdoing by investing in the pipeline before approving it is  and . The potential conflict of interest was known and at least partially addressed before Trump became president and restarted the project. We rate the headline .
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke voted "against body armor for Texas sheriffs patrolling the border.
Speaker: texans are
About the speaker: Texans Are, a super PAC supportive of Sen. Ted Cruz's re-election in 2018, is led by Jason Johnson, a former Cruz strategist.
Date: September 12, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;candidate biography;homeland security
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Texans Are said O’Rourke voted against providing body armor to Texas sheriffs patrolling the border. In 2014, O’Rourke voted in favor of barring the Defense Department from providing excess aircraft, tanks and military weaponry to local law agencies in general. However, the proposed restriction did not extend to body armor and made no mention of border sheriffs. Contrary to the ad's , there was no up-or-down vote on providing body armor to Texas sheriffs patrolling the border. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. UPDATE, 10:07 a.m., Sept. 21, 2018: We revised this story to add the DLA's advisory that it had stopped providing body armor to local law enforcement agencies years before the House vote singled out by Texans Are. This addition didn't affect our rating of the .
Statement: Residents the Wisconsin Election Commission suspected of moving are "illegal voters.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: December 2, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Trump said in a speech that residents the Election Commission suspected of moving are "illegal voters." But there’s absolutely no factual or logical basis to this . Most people on this list have been regular voters, and nothing about being on the list makes them ineligible to vote.  It was just an effort to clarify where voters lived. We rate this .
Statement: Says Walmart is "one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons.
Speaker: stephanie ruhle
About the speaker: Stephanie Ruhle is anchor of "MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle."
Date: August 5, 2019
Topics: punditfact;guns
Context: on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Ruhle said Walmart is "one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons." Walmart does not sell automatic weapons, and it stopped selling semi-automatic rifles in 2015. So we rate this statement .
Statement: The "pay-as-you-go law ... was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: January 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: his State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: So back to Obama's . He said the "pay-as-you-go law ... was a big reason why we had record surpluses in the 1990s." He is correct that it is a basic principle behind the effort to balance the budget, but his statement somewhat overstates the policy's importance in achieving that goal. Yes, PAYGO rules provided some discipline that might have restrained Congress from adding more spending or new tax cuts, but the economy and the defense cuts were the biggest factors that led to the balanced budget. So we find his statement .
Statement: Says Donald Trump has "bankrupted his companies not once, not twice but four times.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: June 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a speech on the economy
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, Trump has "bankrupted his companies not once, not twice but four times." Trump has actually filed Chapter 11 six times, four times within two years in the 1990s, once more in 2004 and once more in 2009. But experts told us Trump shouldn’t bear all the responsibility, as Clinton’s wording suggests, as the majority of bankruptcies happened as the overall casino industry struggled. We rate her  . <div class='artembed'>
Statement: Says state Sen. Paul Sarlo "said in February on NJTV, 'there will be no tax increases in this budget'" and "voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: June 26, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: At a town hall meeting, Christie claimed Sarlo "said in February on NJTV, ‘there will be no tax increases in this budget’" and "voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million." It’s accurate that Sarlo said "there will be no new taxes in this budget" and later voted to increase income taxes by around $800 million in the new fiscal year. But Christie failed to mention that the tax hike was considered separately from the budget bill and that it only would have affected millionaires. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: June 1, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;new hampshire 2012
Context: Concord, N.H
Fact-check justification: Bachmann says Obama is to blame for a 29 percent increase in Memorial Day barbecues, but she's way off on both counts. Her figure comes from a New York Post article that relied on prices in the expensive New York metro area; national figures show the increase was much lower, about 9.9 percent. And she blames Obama for the increase when experts say he and his policies have little, if any, impact on food prices. We find her  .
Statement: Bill Clinton death ruled a homicide, death by poison.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 14, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: As for the  that Clinton, 75, is dead — or was killed by poison and discovered lying on a cell floor in Guantanamo Bay, as the Real Raw News narrative goes — it’s not . It is unfounded and fabricated.   Later in the day on Oct. 14, Clinton’s spokesperson tweeted a statement from Clinton’s doctors explaining his treatment at UC Irvine Medical Center.   "We hope to have him go home soon," it concluded.   We rate this post .
Statement: Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Romney is essentially correct on the numbers, but his strong implication that Perry is responsible is a significant stretch. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: About New York state: "We have the highest debt per capita.
Speaker: edward cox
About the speaker: Edward Cox is the chairman of the New York Repubclian Party. He's also the son-in-law of former Pres. Richard Nixon.
Date: February 10, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: economy
Context: opening remarks at a Republican gubernatorial debate
Fact-check justification: Cox said "We have the highest debt per capita." The latest data proves Cox’s . New York state has had the highest state and local government debt per capita since at least 2011. We rate it .