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Statement: Gov. Bruce Rauner has "created no jobs over the past three years.
Speaker: juliana stratton
About the speaker: Juliana Stratton is an American politician who has served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives since January 2017. She is the running mate of J.B. Pritzker in his campaign for Illinois governor.
Date: June 28, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: jobs
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Stratton said Rauner has "created no jobs over the past three years." But federal employment data indicate jobs have increased by 188,000 since Rauner took office. Even the response from the Pritzker/Stratton campaign, which knocked the employment growth rate under Rauner for falling short of his predecessor’s, tacitly acknowledged that job growth had occurred. More to the point, however, Stratton didn’t comment on the state’s employment growth rate during the interview. Instead, her remarks called into question whether any jobs were created under Rauner. The numbers fail to support her there, so we rate her statement .
Statement: Says Thom Tillis "has cut $500 million from public education.
Speaker: kay hagan
About the speaker: Kay Hagan served one term as a Democrat representing North Carolina in the U.S Senate.
Date: October 7, 2014
Location: national
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Sen. Hagan’s statement attacking Tillis said he "has cut $500 million from public education." Literally, the statement is . As North Carolina's Speaker of the House, Tillis helped pass a budget in 2013 that increased actual spending on education in comparison to previous years. But the budget spent almost $500 million less than what was requested to maintain the status quo, accounting for inflation and increased costs of various services. Additionally, the actual budget increase had a lot to do with rising costs of employee benefits, and not a lot to do with money that ends up in the classroom. We rate this  .
Statement: In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: January 10, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: his State of the State address
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation." Scott's figures are correct, although what he has done here is point to a 10-month job change. We also question how significant it is that Florida ranks third for new jobs, given that we're one of the largest states population-wise. Our unemployment rates would suggest we still have quite a way to go. Still, Scott's numbers are on track. We rate this .
Statement: Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit.
Speaker: sally kohn
About the speaker: Sally Kohn is a liberal columnist and TV pundit based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Kohn is a contributor for CNN and writes columns for the Daily Beast. She also works as a communications consultant and has been active in social justice organizations.
Date: June 30, 2014
Topics: health care;supreme court;punditfact
Context: a segment on CNN
Fact-check justification: On CNN, Kohn said, "Hobby Lobby provided this coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit." The Christian-owned company did previously offer insurance plans that included coverage of a few contraceptives at issue in the case, namely morning-after pills, but reports suggest owners weren't aware they offered that coverage. When the company found out -- in the wake of the contraceptive requirements that came out after the health care law -- the company stopped offering the drugs and took the contraceptive mandate to court. Kohn’s statement is accurate but leaves out that Hobby Lobby says it unwittingly offered this kind of birth control coverage. We rate the  .
Statement: Says "the feds closed the courtroom" when El Chapo started naming Democrats he paid off.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 11, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post shared by Ted Nugent claims that federal agents "closed" the courtroom when Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán started naming Democrats he paid off.  This  is unfounded. The trial was covered by media organizations around the world and federal agents couldn’t have closed off Guzmán’s testimony because he never gave one. We rate this !
Statement: Somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question in the census.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: July 12, 2019
Topics: immigration;census;punditfact
Context: a "Fox & Friends" appearance
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said "somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question. A citizenship question hasn’t been asked of all U.S. households since 1950. Between 1970 and 2000, the question was limited to the long-form census questionnaire, which went out to only 1 in 6 households.  In 2010, the Obama administration ended the entire long-form version. The Census Bureau had already begun sending the question, since 2005, to about 3.5 million households by way of the American Community Survey. The statement is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Image of expansive pit shows a lithium mine.
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: February 5, 2021
Topics: environment;consumer safety;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says a photo of an expansive, arrid pit shows a lithium mine.
Statement: 94 percent of those that are employed by the Department of Education at the federal level were deemed by the department as nonessential employees.
Speaker: joni ernst
About the speaker: Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Date: September 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: education;federal budget
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Ernst said, "94 percent of those that are employed by the Department of Education at the federal level were deemed by the department as nonessential employees." While it’s  that the Education Department did furlough 94 percent of its employees during the 2013 government shutdown, those employees were neither called "nonessential" in official documents nor were they "nonessential" in any casual definition of the word. The Education Department’s furlough rate was 94 percent because its employees were not saving lives or protecting property -- the standard for being exempt from furloughs. The  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate it .
Statement: When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'
Speaker: jon stewart
About the speaker: Jon Stewart is a comedian and host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: history;pop culture;pundits;religion
Context: a segment of "The Daily Show"
Fact-check justification: Jon Stewart, ridiculing Fox News' coverage of the "War on Christmas," repeated a  by the History channel that Congress met nearly every Christmas Day from 1789 to 1856. The ACLU makes the same , based on a magazine article. But daily records show the complete opposite, with just one exception each for the House and Senate. So the assertion that Congress met virtually every Christmas during that period is completely . The idea that members would do so when there's a 1 in 7 chance that Dec. 25 would fall on a Sunday makes this idea . So gather friends and family around the hearth as we give this Christmas  by Stewart, the ACLU and the History channel a collective ! (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Says Rick Kriseman is $35 million over budget on St. Petersburg's new police station.
Speaker: rick baker
About the speaker: From 2001 to 2010, Rick Baker served as mayor of St. Petersburg. In 2017, Baker announced he would run for a third term
Date: June 14, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: infrastructure
Context: a "Tampa Bay Times" article
Fact-check justification: Baker said that the new police headquarters is over budget. Baker considers the budget for the police department to be $50 million, which was the amount that was originally set aside in 2006 when he was mayor. However, before Kriseman took office, a consultant said the city would need $74 million to build a new police headquarters. With the addition of features such as a shooting range and a parking garage, the project’s expected cost is now $86 million. Baker’s insistence that Kriseman should have stuck to a budget developed 11 years ago ignores the changed expectations before Kriseman took office. Moreover, the city is not far enough along on the project to say that it is over budget. So far, there’s no indication that the city is spending more than what the council approved. Baker’s statement is . We rate this  .
Statement: Former President Donald Trump "is fluent in Japanese.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 13, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that Trump is fluent in Japanese. There is no  that the former president is proficient in Japanese or any other foreign language. As president he required translation assistance. We rate this  .
Statement: Says "if current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma.
Speaker: bill hammond
About the speaker: Bill Hammond, a former Texas House member, also previously served as chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission.
Date: August 21, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: education;population
Context: the Houston Chronicle
Fact-check justification: Hammond said "if current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma." Murdock’s projection is that all factors staying the same, about 30 percent of workers will lack a high school diploma. We rate Hammond’s statement as .
Statement: The "six largest cities in Ohio all have higher rates of violence and crime than every major city along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Speaker: silvestre reyes
About the speaker: Rep. Reyes, D-El Paso, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996. He was the first Hispanic American in U.S. history to chair the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which drafts the laws that govern, fund and oversee the 16 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community. He lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for the seat in 2012 to Beto O'Rourke, a member of the El Paso City Council.
Date: May 9, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: We rate the statement . CORRECTION, 10:25 a.m., May 11, 2011 : The day this article posted, we subsequently amended our reference to the 2009 rate of aggravated assaults in Columbus. The initial article incorrectly said the Ohio city had the lowest rate of all the checked cities. In addition, the article's conclusion was later amended to correct the Columbus reference.
Statement: Americans work way more than an average of industrialized countries around the world.
Speaker: keith ellison
About the speaker: Keith Ellison is a Democratic congressman from Minnesota, representing a district that includes all of Minneapolis and portions of two neighboring counties. In 2017, Ellison became the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Date: February 9, 2014
Location: national
Topics: jobs
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Ellison said that an average U.S. employee works "way more than the average industrialized countries around the world." The data shows that U.S. workers spend about 1,790 hours per year on the clock, which is above an average of developed countries at 1,715 hours. So he’s right that Americans work a lot, but we’ll dock Ellison a notch on our -O-Meter for exaggerating the difference. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.
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: May 3, 2016
Location: national
Topics: abortion;immigration;health care;human rights;islam;foreign policy;religion;terrorism;guns
Context: a Clinton campaign tweet
Fact-check justification: A Clinton campaign video listed eight steps Trump has promised to take as president. Five of those are firmly on the Trump agenda. That includes repealing Obamacare, building a wall along the Mexican border, deporting illegal immigrants, banning Muslims at the border, and restoring waterboarding and other torture techniques. On eliminating gun-free zones on school grounds, he hasn’t repeated it recently, but we saw no  he had changed his stance. There might be some debate over his plan to defund Planned Parenthood, because he links that to continued abortions. However, there is no indication that the group plans to stop providing that service, so a President Trump would need to cut funding if he wanted to keep his promise. The one exaggeration in the video is his threat to kill the families of terrorists. Trump seems to have backed off that promise. He has said he would make them suffer, not necessarily kill them. The video might miss a couple of nuances, but it is generally accurate. We rate the collective package . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a27d6e08-b5ec-40bb-aeb2-e15557be8d62
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "supported North American Free Trade Agreement), and she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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: July 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;trade
Context: a speech at the Republican national convention
Fact-check justification: Trump said Clinton "supported NAFTA, and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She has supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership." Trump is right that Clinton once supported NAFTA and TPP and has yet to revoke her support for China’s inclusion in the WTO or the deal with South Korea. But there are caveats. Clinton no longer supports NAFTA or TPP, and it’s not entirely clear that trade with South Korea has killed jobs. Trump’s statement is accurate because it’s carefully phrased, but it needs additional context. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/68c1a4d5-56ad-4a84-87b6-564b5037df5b
Statement: NC liquor stores were deemed essential "because we have a lot of people who are chemically dependent on alcohol and if we suddenly cut off their access they would go into withdrawal and flood the emergency rooms.
Speaker: jeff jackson
About the speaker: Jeff Jackson represents the Charlotte area in the North Carolina state senate.
Date: April 6, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: alcohol;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Jackson said liquor stores are still open because "we have a lot of people who are chemically dependent on alcohol and if we suddenly cut off their access they would go into withdrawal and flood the emergency rooms, which we can’t have right now." Gov. Cooper is responsible for determining which businesses are considered essential, and his administration hasn’t mentioned alcohol dependency as a reason for the designation.  The only  Jackson cited was an ABC operations manager in Asheville who said some store owners are concerned about closures potentially affecting the hospital system. But it’s not clear that that concern is shared among all 170 ABC store owners. Jackson’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression about North Carolina’s Executive Order. We rate it .
Statement: I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the election. Anybody who says they are shocked on this has been asleep for the past two years.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: In an audiotape released Feb. 23, 2011, Walker compares his union plan to a history-making act and portrayed his union plan as a "bomb." Walker aides acknowledge the tape is real , but say Walker simply was saying privately what he has said publicly about his budget-repair bill. Of a meeting with his cabinet, Walker in the tape says: We talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to do it. We had already built plans up. This was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb." )
Statement: Every Republican nominee since Richard Nixon, who at one time was under an audit, has released their tax returns.
Speaker: chris wallace
About the speaker: Chris Wallace is the host of "Fox News Sunday."
Date: May 15, 2016
Topics: history;taxes;punditfact
Context: an episode of "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Wallace said, "Every Republican nominee since Richard Nixon, who at one time was under an audit, has released their tax returns." The IRS did audit Nixon, and he did release his tax returns. But he released them after he won re-election. His successor, Ford, released a tax summary spanning several years but never his full returns.   That being said, every Republican nominee since then — six nominees over nine elections — has disclosed their tax returns. Wallace’s telling of history is a little off, though the force of his point is correct: The Republican has released his tax returns in the last nine presidential cycles. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the Texas Forest Service planted 6,000 trees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before the Super Bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost.
Speaker: michael sullivan
About the speaker: Sullivan helms Empower Texans, which says on its website that it exists to create and sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within all levels of Texas government, ensuring the greatest amounts of economic and personal liberty, and promoting public policies that provide individuals with the freedom to use their strengths and talents in pursuit of greater opportunities.
Date: February 3, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: environment
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: For an unknown purpose? Not so, times two. Besides, "your Forest Service," as Sullivan puts it, didn’t plant the trees by its lonesome. Moreover, half the expenses were covered by private donations. We rate the statement .
Statement: Contrary to media reports, Georgia's gas tax change led to no price increase at the pump.
Speaker: e. frank stephenson
About the speaker: E. Frank Stephenson is chairman of the Department of Economics at Berry College.
Date: August 14, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: gas prices;taxes
Context: a Georgia Public Policy Foundation blog post
Fact-check justification: In Atlanta’s car-centric world, gas prices are nearly as hot a topic as bad drivers. So Berry College economist E. Frank Stephenson caught our attention with his piece that the change how Georgia taxes gasoline was "much ado about nothing" because an analysis of prices before and after the change show rather than increasing taxes, pump prices went down this summer. "Georgia’s gas tax change led to no price increase at the pump," Stephenson wrote in dismissing warnings of a tax increase. Stephenson is correct that average gas prices dropped this summer in Georgia, where we plunged to an 11-year low during the recent Labor Day weekend. He used neighboring states to show that Georgia prices dropped the same as states that did not alter their gas taxes this summer. That analysis, however, doesn’t indicate what sorts of market forces could depress pump prices, even as a growing share of that cost is taxes. And, the math shows just what was predicted when Georgia switched to a higher statewide excise tax on July 1: motorists paying several cents more per gallon than they would have under the former system. If not for the tax change, Georgia motorists would be paying even less at the pump now. Stephenson uses accurate numbers but leaves out critical facts that provide that important context. We rate his  .