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Statement: Says Gov. Scott Walker's repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: April 5, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: legal issues;women;workers
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: This is highly . Our rating Burke said that Walker’s repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "just one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from gender discrimination in their paycheck." But while Walker reversed an attempt to toughen up Wisconsin law, its protections against gender discrimination in workplace pay date back decades. The governor’s 2012 action left those in place, albeit without tougher penalties for employers. We rate Burke’s  .
Statement: Although the governor doubled the beach fees . . . all the money, as we found out, is all going to an out-of-state company. The state isn't even getting the money for that.
Speaker: john depetro
About the speaker: John DePetro is a talk-show host on WPRO.
Date: July 7, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;economy;history;pundits;recreation;state budget;tourism
Context: a talk radio comment
Fact-check justification: John DePetro said emphatically that ALL of the beach parking revenue generated when the governor raised its fees went to a private company outside Rhode Island. First of all, the governor proposed the fee increase but he didn’t do it on his own. It got the approval of the General Assembly as well. Second, all of the new revenue did not and does not go to the private company. When the state raked in that extra money, Propark got 20 percent of the new revenue. The state might have wanted to take all the additional revenue, but its contract with the company collecting the fees required both to share in the extra revenue. The state got 80 percent of that additional money. DePetro cited WPRI as his source. But while they got the essential facts right, he did not. We rate DePetro's scorcher of a   ! (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: In the state rankings for ACT test scores, West Virginia "is 30th. Which states are listed in the bottom? 15 states with charter schools.
Speaker: mike romano
About the speaker: Mike Romano is a Democratic state senator in West Virginia.
Date: February 2, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: education
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Romano said that in the state rankings for ACT test scores, West Virginia "is 30th. Which states are listed in the bottom? 15 states with charter schools." West Virginia did rank 30th in 2018 for ACT scores, but that’s where Romano’s accuracy ends. There are lots of charter-school states that rank below West Virginia -- but also lots of charter-school states that rank above West Virginia, simply because most states now allow charter schools. We rate the statement .
Statement: The average minimum wage worker is 35 years old.
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: April 26, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a weekly address
Fact-check justification: The White House had a point earlier this month when it tweeted that those who would benefit from a $10.10 wage hike average 35 years of age. But Obama’s subsequent comment was less accurate. In his weekly address, the actual statistic using the data from the same report is 31, and partial data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that the average age could be even lower than that. We rate the  .
Statement: FedNow is a new "monetary system" that's "going to cost you.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 22, 2023
Topics: economy;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A video claimed that Americans would be forced to pay hefty fees with the new FedNow Service, which it falsely described as a new monetary system. But the service is not a monetary system; it’s designed to help financial institutions process instant payments faster and safer.  The fees listed on a FedNow website would be paid by financial institutions that choose to use the service. What fees they may choose to pass on to consumers is unknown. The  is . RELATED: Here’s why social media panic over digital currency is overblown RELATED: Don’t confuse FedNow payment system and central bank digital currency; they’re not the same RELATED: Ron DeSantis’ baseless theory that the government wants to control people’s purchases
Statement: Says it's a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death.
Speaker: mike huckabee
About the speaker: Mike Huckabee ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former governor of Arkansas; he also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He left hosting a self-titled television show on Fox News in January 2015.
Date: March 4, 2011
Location: national
Topics: children;economy;education;families;health care;income;jobs;labor;marriage;poverty;women;workers
Context: a post on his PAC's website
Fact-check justification: There’s a pretty strong case that Huckabee is right about poverty in single-mother households. But his claims about educational attainment and government assistance are exaggerated, and the majority of kids living with single moms put food on the table without public assistance. And one  is flat-out  -- that single moms aren’t able to get jobs. Lots of single mothers do -- often in higher rates than married moms. On balance, we rate Huckabee’s statement .
Statement: Before I was state treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs.
Speaker: gina raimondo
About the speaker: Gina Raimondo served a four-year term as Rhode Island's general treasurer beginning in Jan. 4, 2011 before being elected governor in 2014. She cofounded and served as a general partner of Point Judith Capital. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and a Rhodes Scholar. She is married with two children.
Date: August 7, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;economy;jobs;message machine 2014
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: They confirmed that Point Judith capital invested several million dollars - give or take - in each case; held board positions and as such, helped create jobs. The jobs numbers added to roughly 480 at those companies. While we were unable to reach all the companies Raimondo listed, the responses from the companies we did reach supported her qualified  that Point Judith "helped create" 1,000 jobs. We rate Raimondo’s  . (If you have a  you'd like us to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: There is no such thing as a trans kid.
Speaker: gays against groomers
About the speaker: Gays Against Groomers is an activist nonprofit that runs Twitter and Instagram accounts that comment against transgender issues and drag shows, among other LGBTQ+ topics.
Date: July 20, 2023
Topics: children;lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram Post
Fact-check justification: Gays Against Groomers said, "There is no such thing as a trans kid." The  stretches beyond opinion or an opposition to gender-affirming care to deny the existence of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Gender incongruence in children and adolescents is a well-documented experience that has been widely accepted by the medical community.  Social and medical interventions that are provided are given in response to a person’s feelings of gender incongruence, which can emerge within a child’s earliest years. Treatments for young transgender people do not always result in prescription drugs or surgeries, as the caption implied.  There is such a thing as a trans kid.  We rate this  !
Statement: A PETA activist was taped to a tree after protesting a biker rally.
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: April 10, 2019
Topics: environment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If you think that sounds unbelievable, please trust your intuition. Because Glossynews.com markets itself on its website as "Glossy News Satire." "We are  news!" it says at the top of the site. We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Says activists threatened his family and "screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.
Speaker: josh hawley
About the speaker: Josh Hawley took office as U.S. Senator from Missouri in 2019. Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General. 
Date: January 4, 2021
Location: missouri
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hawley said protesters at his Virginia home "screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open (his) door." This conflicts with police accounts of the event and a video showing the full demonstration. The demonstration was disruptive, but the full video shows it was not as violent as he made it sound. We rate this  .
Statement: Under President Barack Obama's jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.
Speaker: david scott
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. David Scott represents Georgia's 13th district, which covers portions of Cobb, Clayton, Douglas, Fulton, Henry and DeKalb.
Date: September 9, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs
Context: a WABE-FM (90.1) radio interview
Fact-check justification: And it does specify that the bulk of the money go to jobs, rather than administrative costs. This means that even though Scott overstated his , the bill is "targeted," as he said, to keep these government employees from being laid off. But the burden of proof is on Scott, and while the money could prevent many layoffs, there’s no hard  that governments would "no longer" have to let go of employees. His  has accurate elements, but it’s overstated and could use more context. We therefore rate his  .
Statement: The man who killed the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter "wasn't even an on-duty police officer.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 28, 2022
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;guns;texas
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that off-duty Border Patrol agent Jacob Albarado shot and killed the Uvalde school shooter. This post misrepresents what Albarado and law enforcement have said transpired at the school. While Albarado is a Border Patrol agent who helped with the evacuation effort while off-duty, he said he did not go inside the school. And law enforcement has not indicated he was part of the tactical team that killed Ramos inside the school. We rate this .
Statement: Says Romney tax plan "could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition.
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: September 18, 2012
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The Obama campaign ad says Romney’s tax plan "could take away middle-class deductions for child care, mortgages and college tuition." Romney has said he would not reduce the mortgage deduction and has promised not to increase taxes on the middle class. However, he has failed to provide enough details for analysts to model what his plan would actually do. There are reasonable concerns that the numbers in Romney’s plan don’t add up. The ad assumes that to get the numbers right, the worst possible outcomes for the middle class are likely. It says some major deductions could be taken away. At PolitiFact, we put the burden of proof on the person speaking to back up his or her  with . The Obama ad is very specific about which deductions might be at risk. The Romney plan might be unrealistic and intentionally vague, but the Obama campaign is filling in the blanks with specific deductions that would appeal to middle-class moms. Romney hasn't said he intends to take away those deductions. And he's specifically said he won't touch the largest of those deductions, the mortgage deduction for the middle class. We rate the statement .
Statement: The Democratic majority led the 111th Congress to spend more money in two years than the first 100 congresses before them combined.
Speaker: kevin mccarthy
About the speaker: Kevin McCarthy, who was first elected in 2006, is a Republican member of Congress representing a district in California. McCarthy was elected as House Speaker in January 2023.
Date: January 2, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;history
Context: the "Bakersfield Californian"
Fact-check justification: This doesn't mean Obama and the Democratic Congress bear no responsibility for the rise in spending. They just don't deserve all the blame. Ultimately, McCarthy's statement in the Californian was slightly less  than Cantor's statememt to Jon Stewart, since the "first 100 congresses" formulation is ultimately more supportable than "the last 200 years combined." Still, McCarthy made the same error that Cantor, his fellow Young Gun, did a couple months earlier -- confusing annual spending for accumulated debt. And that's enough to rule McCarthy's statement .
Statement: Putin destroys adrenochrome lab in Ukraine.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: We found no credible news reports or other sources to corroborate the claims in this post. QAnon promotes a number of conspiracy theories that invoke pedophilia and a Democratic cabal. QAnon adherents were present during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These ideas also infiltrated political discourse as recently as the 2022 midterm elections.   We rate this  !
Statement: 99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting.
Speaker: bear education and resource group
About the speaker: The Bear Education and Resource Group is a black bear advocacy group whose mission is to "teach residents how to live responsibly and peacefully with black bears."
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: animals;polls and public opinion
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: A black bear advocacy group claimed on its website that 99 percent of New Jersey voters oppose hunting. That number is way off. The organization acknowledges it’s , but late in the afternoon on Dec. 7, more than a day after PolitiFact New Jersey initially contacted the group, the statement was still on the website -- even after Jones said a webmaster would be notified to change it.* The statement drops to the  level for that reason, earning a ! To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Increased encounters at the southwest border in April 2022 compared to April 2020 are attributable to changes in border policy.
Speaker: mark brnovich
About the speaker: Mark Brnovich is Arizona's Attorney General and is running for U.S Senate.
Date: May 23, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: immigration;border security;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: By April 2022, testing and vaccines were more accessible, and lockdown restrictions were largely lifted.   Border encounters have generally increased monthly after April 2020. However, immigration policies for adults traveling alone have been the same under the Trump and Biden administrations. Brnovich’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: The word picnic is a "racially insensitive word.
Speaker: robert mckinzie
About the speaker: Robert L. McKinzie was first sworn in as City Commissioner for District 3 on Nov. 10, 2014 to serve out the remainder of the term vacated by former Commissioner Bobby B. DuBose.  He was elected in 2015 and 2018. McKinzie is the owner and president of Harper and Sons Construction, a general contracting firm that specializes in affordable housing and construction management
Date: February 19, 2019
Location: florida
Topics: history;race and ethnicity
Context: a Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting
Fact-check justification: McKinzie said that the word picnic is a "racially insensitive word." There is no  that the origin of the word traces back to lynchings of African-Americans. The word has French origins and refers to a gathering with food. During lynchings, the settings were sometimes social occasions where white people ate food. While that was a picnic-like atmosphere, it doesn’t mean that the word "picnic" is a racist word. We rate this statement .
Statement: The government is giving every household a $500 Walmart shopping credit to help with inflation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 10, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That was a scam, and so is this.   Randy Hargrove, a Walmart spokesperson, told us the post isn’t accurate. We also didn’t find anything on Walmart’s website to corroborate the  in the post — though the company does advise customers to avoid buying, selling or checking a gift card balance "on online marketplaces outside of Walmart.com." And we found no  elsewhere, in news reports or other credible sources, to support the idea that the government is giving every household a $500 Walmart shopping credit to help with inflation.   We rate this  !
Statement: Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 9, 2007
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Dearborn, Mich
Fact-check justification: If "everybody" qualified for SCHIP and McCain says, there would be no need for private health insurance, Americans would be taking home more money in their paychecks because they wouldn't have to pay premiums and the federal government would be flat-out bankrupt. But even in the complex formula for SCHIP eligibility it's easy to dream up an example of someone who wouldn't qualify. Say, a single, 25-year-old man, earning $75,000 a year. The American Heritage Dictionary defines "everybody" as "every person." The SCHIP bill that Bush vetoed would cover more people than before, but it certainly wouldn't cover everybody.
Statement: The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.
Speaker: illinois policy institute
About the speaker: The Illinois Policy Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Chicago and Springfied, Ill.
Date: August 3, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Illinois Policy Institute cites Cook County’s new sweetened drink tax as making soda sold in the city of Chicago "among the most expensive in the country." With Chicago already charging the nation’s highest sales tax of any major city plus a 3-percent soft drink tax, it’s almost certain that consumers in the city paid "among" the highest prices for soft drinks in the country even before the Aug. 2 arrival of the sweetened drink tax. But Chicago truly moved into a select group when its home county joined the seven other cities that have enacted or are poised to enact by-the-ounce taxes on sweetened soft drinks. With a nod to Captain Obvious , we raise a glass of flattened, left-out-in-the-open Coke in the direction of the Illinois Policy Institute as we rate this statement .
Statement: Says the U.S. Postal Service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and related products and makes an "operational profit year after year.
Speaker: jim hightower
About the speaker: Jim Hightower, who served two terms as Texas agriculture commissioner, is a commentator and writer.
Date: May 1, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: federal budget;financial regulation;government regulation
Context: a fundraising letter
Fact-check justification: Hightower said the postal service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and the like and makes an "operational profit year after year." The service funds operations from the sale of stamps and the like. Also, Congress in 1970 set a course for ending federal subsidies. But the last subsidies flowed in 1982, not 1971. Contrary to this , too, the service last enjoyed an operational profit in 2006, the year it was handed a costly mandate to quickly pre-fund decades of retiree health benefits. While the post office may be doing better than people think, we rate this  as .
Statement: The tax deadline is April 18th. Do your taxes soon.
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: March 29, 2018
Location: national
Topics: taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A 2018 Facebook post that’s recirculating now said the tax deadline is April 18. That wasn’t  for 2018, and it’s not  for this year either. This year’s deadline for most taxpayers was moved to May 17 because of the pandemic. Taxpayers in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana have until June 15, because of the winter storms there. We rate this post .