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Statement: You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
Speaker: cory booker
About the speaker: Cory Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2013, making him the first African-American senator from New Jersey and the first African-American elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004. Booker served as mayor of Newark from 2006 until 2013. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in sociology from Stanford University, an honors degree in United States history from The Queens College as a Rhodes Scholar and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and suspended his campaign in January 2020.
Date: December 23, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
Fact-check justification: In a TV appearance, Booker claimed, "You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America. The mayor’s statistic isn’t far off. According to the most recent data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a five-year rolling average of final CDC figures puts the number of gun-related murders at about 33 per day. In terms of individual years, there were about 30 gun-related homicides on a daily basis in 2010 and 2011. That figure marks a reduction since the roughly 35 murders per day recorded in 2006, which was the highest amount for any year in the last decade. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.
Speaker: lincoln chafee
About the speaker: Lincoln Chafee is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He served one four-year term as Rhode Island's governor, beginning on Jan. 4, 2011. He was the first Independent to be elected to that office. He subsequently became a Democrat. As a Republican, he served as mayor of Warwick from 1992 to 1999, when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate following the death of his father, Sen. John H. Chafee. He was elected to a full Senate term in 2000. He is married with three children. In April 2015 he formed an exploratory committee to consider running for President.
Date: January 11, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: infrastructure;transportation
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Governor Chafee said the T.F. Green InterLink is the closest air-rail link in the country. Whether he meant closest commuter link or closest Amtrak link, he’s . Several major airports have closer commuter links, including some that run adjacent to or through their terminals. And Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport is closer to an Amtrak line. Plus, it has something T.F. Green does not: an actual Amtrak station. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor does indeed pass near T.F. Green, but Amtrak trains do not stop at the InterLink. Only commuter trains that are operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority -- and use the Amtrak line -- do. Officials have talked of having Amtrak trains stop at the InterLink eventually, but it hasn’t happened yet. So at this point it seems irrelevant that the airport is so close to the Amtrak rail line. We rule Chafee’s statement . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics like this, to miss this, is a huge problem.
Speaker: brian fitzpatrick
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican from Pennsylvania's Bucks County 
Date: May 5, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus;pennsylvania
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: During a conservative talk radio interview, Fitzpatrick accused the WHO of missing the pandemic, citing a Jan. 14 tweet in which the organization reported Chinese assurances that  there was no human-to-human transmission of the virus.  Experts argue that the WHO was slow to acknowledge human-to-human transmission, declare the coronavirus a "public health emergency of international concern," and label it a pandemic.  But the agency was actively gathering and disseminating information about the virus in the weeks prior to the official pandemic declaration, and it’s possible to interpret public statements made during this time as cautious, not reckless. Saying the WHO missed the pandemic altogether goes too far. Also, Fitzpatrick’s  doesn’t acknowledge the WHO’s work promoting public health. For these reasons, we rate Fitzpatrick’s  .
Statement: We have record numbers of people living in poverty.
Speaker: carly fiorina
About the speaker: Carly Fiorina is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. She is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). She was defeated in her attempt as the Republican nominee to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.
Date: November 1, 2015
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said, "We have record numbers of people living in poverty today." In terms of raw numbers, Fiorina is correct that more people live in poverty today than ever in the 56 years the census has been keeping track. However, absolute value is an inappropriate measure for poverty analysis, experts said. If we use the right measure, poverty rate, we see that poverty has decreased significantly since 1959. We rate Fiorina’s  .
Statement: The Trump Administration is trying to take food assistance away from Wisconsin families when people are out of work and struggling.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: May 15, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: food;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Baldwin said "the Trump Administration is trying to take food assistance away from Wisconsin families when people are out of work and struggling."  Congress and the Trump administration have launched various assistance initiatives during the pandemic. And one measure specifically lifted a work-related requirement.  However, at the same time, the administration doubled down on its support of a proposed SNAP rule change that would in effect cut off basic food assistance for nearly 700,000 people -- once an emergency is lifted, and if the agency successfully fends off a lawsuit.  We rate the  .  window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: Germany weather maps show media exaggerating effects of climate change.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 22, 2022
Topics: climate change;weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that green and red colors showing temperatures in two different weather maps five years apart in Germany show the media is manipulating the maps to push a climate change agenda by adding red to make it seem hotter. But the maps in the post show two different things — one, from 2017, shows a general weather forecast on a green background; one, from 2022, shows only temperatures on a red background. The earlier green background had nothing to do with the temperatures, while the red background in 2022 did. We rate this  . PolitiFact developer Mark Wirblich contributed to this report.
Statement: The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
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: July 31, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget;history
Context: remarks from the White House
Fact-check justification: But that’s not what Obama said. He said that the deal would bring "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower." By not specifying that he was referring to "discretionary" spending, Obama is , since the expenses for mandatory domestic programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will remain high in the years ahead. According to the White House, that's not what he meant, but he still said what he said. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: In Muslim countries, under the Sharia, there is a death penalty for blaspheming Mohammad.
Speaker: pamela geller
About the speaker: Pamela Geller is an activist who co-founded Stop Islamization of America, also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a far-right group. In February 2015, Geller's group hosted a "Draw the Prophet" event in Garland, Texas, during which two shooters tried to ambush the event but were killed. 
Date: June 4, 2015
Topics: religion;punditfact
Context: an interview with Chris Cuomo
Fact-check justification: Geller said that "in Muslim countries, under the Sharia, there is a death penalty for blaspheming Mohammad." At best, that is an overgeneralization. Yes, there are countries who prescribe the death penalty, and they often do cite the Sharia as the cause for it. But out of 50 countries with Muslim majorities, there are only 11 where this is in some way sanctioned by state law. In addition, not all countries with the death penalty use it. The death penalty is not applied universally, and can be mitigated in cases when the accused repents. Geller’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details and takes things out of context. We rate her statement is .
Statement: President Biden's Air Force One pilot got fired after this vertical take off.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 9, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: But Air Force One never parks at a terminal, because it has to be able to take off quickly if needed, according to reports . Around the 6-minute mark in the video, the simulated plane takes off vertically, as the headline says. The plane depicted in the video also does not match the real Air Force One aircraft. For example, the simulated plane shows two vertical stabilizers , each emblazoned with an American flag, while the real Air Force One has a single vertical stabilizer with one American flag. We rate the  that President Biden's Air Force One pilot got fired after a vertical take off !
Statement: Fulton County has successfully reduced the number of pregnancies" among 15- to 19-year-olds.
Speaker: fulton county government
About the speaker: Fulton County, home to Atlanta, has the largest population of any county in the state.
Date: May 26, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: women
Context: a press releaase
Fact-check justification: Its clinic saw just under 2,000 teens in 2009. Its educational outreach program reached 3,000 teens. The Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University develops and researches successful sex education methods and disseminates information to teens and professionals. While Grady, the Jane Fonda Center and other resources have likely played a major role in the reduction of teenage pregnancy rates, it's fair to give credit to Fulton County as well. We rate its  as .
Statement: Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: January 12, 2015
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: a book
Fact-check justification: Rubio wrote that college administrators have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1." Rubio’s right about the general trend, but one of the two examples he specifically mentions in the book belongs to a different employment category -- one that has been growing more slowly. In addition, there’s  that this is not bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake -- many of the positions increasing in recent years directly support students. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it . Help fund PolitiFact’s Kickstarter to live fact-check the 2015 State of the Union and GOP response.
Statement: The U.S. Justice Department has "taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009.
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 11, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: civil rights;elections
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said the Justice Department has "taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009." Obama’s statement was somewhat vague, because he didn’t explain during his speech what he meant by "taken on" cases. Some listeners could have interpreted that to mean all cases in which the department was the plaintiff. That's not the case though; the Justice Department has a list of 102 cases that include instances in which the department is the plaintiff, the defendant or played some other role. We rate this  .
Statement: Pope Francis at Mass: 'Jesus is Metaphorical, Not Literal.
Speaker: yournewswire.com
About the speaker: A website associated with fake news.
Date: November 18, 2017
Topics: fake news;religion;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: "He has radically transformed the tone of his office, making a number eye-raising gestures and pronouncements that have liberals cheering and conservatives shaking their heads," the Washington Post stated in 2015. His statements that have drawn debate include the topics of atheism, sexuality, abortion, climate change and divorce. "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" he said in 2013. But in this case, we could find no  that he uttered the words in the headline, "Jesus is Metaphorical, Not Literal."   We rate this headline .
Statement: All of this work helped us increase graduation rates by 42 percent and substantially reduce the racial achievement gap.
Speaker: michael bloomberg
About the speaker: Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
Date: January 21, 2019
Location: new york
Topics: education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Bloomberg said that graduation rates under his administration increased by 42 percent, and that the racial achievement gap was "substantially" reduced. The data shows the graduation rate increased by 42 percent. As for Bloomberg’s  that his administration "substantially" reduced the racial achievement gap, he looks chiefly to graduation rate data, which showed that the racial achievement gap narrowed. But this part of his statement needs additional information. By a different measure - test scores - experts found that the racial achievement gap was not substantially reduced, and in some analyses didn’t budge or even widened.  We rate Bloomberg’s  .
Statement: Says House Republicans rejected a straightforward measure that would prevent members of Congress and the president from being paid during a government shutdown.
Speaker: barbara boxer
About the speaker: Barbara Boxer is California's junior senator.
Date: April 1, 2011
Location: national
Topics: ethics;federal budget;voting record;workers
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The House did have a chance to vote on something similar to Boxer’s bill, but it turned it down on a near party-line vote. So Boxer is correct on that point. There’s still a question whether her bill is would pass constitutional muster. We won’t find out, though, because the two chambers seem unlikely to agree on legislation. Given that impasse, we rate Boxer’s statement .
Statement: Metro Atlantans spend "over an hour every day" or "five hours a week" commuting, for a total of "260 hours a year.
Speaker: metro atlanta voter education network
About the speaker: The Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network is a coalition of businesses and civic groups that is running a public information campaign to educate voters about a July 2012 transportation referrendum.
Date: March 16, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: message machine 2012;transportation
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Workers often get a week or so of vacation or sick leave. MAVEN’s numbers are OK for a back-of-the-envelope calculation. They’re also within reason.    However, metro Atlanta is so big and the commutes can be so different that assuming a trip to work takes as much time as the one back home is a bridge too far. We give MAVEN a .
Statement: Says unproven voter fraud claims didn't play "any role" in the Capitol riot.
Speaker: jake corman
About the speaker: Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore 
Date: January 14, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;pennsylvania;jan. 6
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Corman said unproven voter fraud claims didn’t play "any role" in the attack. No role at all? That’s . A  but deeply held belief that the election was rigged and stolen from Trump led thousands of his supporters to gather in Washington and later storm the Capitol. The claims inspired the riot. We rate Corman’s statement .
Statement: Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: October 12, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: florida amendments
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: We rule this  . Though if Mr. Hiaasen comes up with that magical database, we’d be happy to reconsider. UPDATE: John Caulfield, who graciously acknowledged his  on a Lennar number, later showed us one of our own errors. Our original post of this item used a year-end tax figure, not a fourth-quarter one, for KB Home. That has now been corrected.
Statement: The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: March 18, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: In fact, the CBO has said a year-by-year projection of the bill's budget effect beyond the first 10 years would "not be meaningful because the uncertainties involved are simply too great." It's natural to want to translate the CBO's GDP projection into actual dollars (Who can get their head around a half a percent of GDP 10 to 20 years from now?). And the GDP projections used to extrapolate the $1.2 trillion figure may be perfectly reasonable, if highly speculative. But Pelosi puts a firm number on a projection that CBO so carefully tried to hedge. And so we rate this  .
Statement: We just had someone last week in Neenah near a school kill someone with a bow and arrow.
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: January 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: guns
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Trouble was, there wasn’t such a homicide. What’s more, while the incident was near a school (2.5 miles away) it didn’t have anything to do with the school. And the SWAT team was called because the suspect was holed up inside the house -- with potential access to guns. Finally, Walker’s staff allowed his statement to go uncorrected for four days and only admitted that it was  after being asked about it by PolitiFact. .
Statement: Rick Perry ended full-day Pre-K for 100,000 Texas children.
Speaker: progress texas
About the speaker: On its website, Progress Texas describes itself as a "nonprofit communications hub that educates the public about politicians, policies and organizations that have a direct impact on the everyday lives of Texans." Its mission, according to the website, is "to provide a strong, credible and enduring progressive voice that will ensure more inclusive, just and sustainable policies for Texas."
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a statement for Twitter
Fact-check justification: Second, the end of the grants — which helped about 100,000 kids attend a full day of pre-K last school year — doesn't mean all grant recipients are cutting back to half a day. Some are, and some are not. Finally, while Perry signed the legislation that ends the grant money, the budget was the handiwork of the Republican-led Legislature. He didn't stop the grants by himself. We rate Progress Texas' statement .
Statement: Ted Cruz is in negotiations to be Donald Trump's running mate.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 25, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a post and story from Elect Leaders
Fact-check justification: On Facebook, Elect Leaders said Cruz and Trump are negotiating a Trump-Cruz Republican ticket. Anything is possible. But we don't see  the two camps are lately plotting a shared ticket. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.