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Statement: Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for the five counties of New York City.
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: January 9, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for the five counties of New York City," Cox said. Cox was comparing unemployment figures between November 2017 and November 2016. The figures showed unemployment up in almost every county outside New York City. One county had a lower rate, and two other counties had no change in their unemployment rates. We rate his  .
Statement: Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: June 13, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;legal issues;states
Context: Campaign email
Fact-check justification: Wisconsin became a state in May 1948, the year before its abortion law was passed.   Here is the full list of states granted statehood after the 1849 Wisconsin law:  California, September 1850 Minnesota, May 1858 Oregon, February 1859 Kansas, January 1861 West Virginia, June 1863 Nevada, October 1864 Neraska, March 1867 Colorado, August 1876 North Dakota, November 1889 South Dakota, November 1889 Montana, November 1889 Washington, November 1889 Idaho, July 1890 Wyoming, July 1890 Utah, January 1896 Oklahoma, November 1907 New Mexico, January 1912 Arizona, February 1912 Alaska, January 1959  Hawaii, August 1959  That does tally 20. Our ruling  Evers’ campaign said that Wisconsin’s abortion law, which would go into effect were Roe v. Wade overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, is older than 20 states.   Indeed, 20 states were accepted after 1849, including California, Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.   We rate this  .
Statement: Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: November 13, 2009
Location: national
Topics: military;terrorism
Context: an e-mail circulated to many people
Fact-check justification: But it appears that disclaimer came later, and that it failed to stop the avalanche of e-mails spreading the  report. Hasan attended a meeting on a subject relevant to his profession, that much is clear. But beyond that, there's nothing to back up the chain e-mail's accusation that he somehow was "an ADVISOR" to the Obama administration or that GWU's task force was involved in the new White House. In fact, the group's work began long before Obama took office and is in no way affiliated with the White House. Another chain e-mail, another !
Statement: Says the media distorted what happened with a baby at his rally.
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: August 7, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;children
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said the media distorted what happened with a baby at his rally. Many media outlets reported that Trump "threw out" or "ejected" a crying baby from a campaign event in Virginia, based on his commentary on the incident. But this isn’t . Trump’s comments came as the mother was already voluntarily exiting from the rally. We rate Trump’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/598870c7-2bbd-47a5-8d22-04f0a67ebc97
Statement: We went from zero A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent.
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: July 13, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: corrections and updates;education
Context: an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board
Fact-check justification: Baker said, "We went from 0 A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent." Baker’s  comes from the Florida Department of Education and the statistics he cites are accurate. Local community members gave him credit for starting a mentoring program, but Baker himself has acknowledged that many factors outside of the mayor’s control influence school grades.   His statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we it .
Statement: John Raese's wife "is registered to vote in Florida so she can't even vote for him.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: October 8, 2010
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;elections;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Manchin's ad tries to make voters question Raese's loyalty to West Virginia. It's hard to make a case that Raese isn't someone with longtime ties to West Virginia. On the other hand, it's  that his wife is registered to vote in Florida, and that's the fact we're checking here. Public records confirm she is registered to vote in Florida and receives a homestead exemption on her property. So we rate Manchin's statement .
Statement: After not having any foreign trade offices overseas for the past decade, New Jersey opened offices in Shanghai and London in the past six months, and has seen an 18 percent increase in exports.
Speaker: kim guadagno
About the speaker: Kim Guadagno is the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey.
Date: May 11, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: economy
Context: a radio interview on WNYC
Fact-check justification: She’s right about those two offices, but she’s  to say such international efforts haven’t been done before. In fact, New Jersey had 10 offices at various times during the past decade. And there's little, if any,  that the offices led to the 18 percent increase. We find her statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says Ralph Hall is "the oldest member in Congress ever.
Speaker: now or never pac
About the speaker: Now or Never PAC is a super PAC based in Missouri.
Date: March 20, 2014
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;history
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The Now or Never PAC ad said Hall is "the oldest member in Congress ever." That’s not correct -- four members of Congress, all of them senators, have served at a more advanced age than Hall. So we rate the  .
Statement: Says Bill Young "voted twice for the Ryan budget that ends the current Medicare system.
Speaker: jessica ehrlich
About the speaker: Jessica Ehrlich is a Democrat running for Congress for District 13, the seat currently held by U.S. Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young.
Date: October 8, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: medicare
Context: a TV commercial
Fact-check justification: A TV ad from Jessica Ehrlich claims Bill Young voted "twice for the Ryan budget that ends the current Medicare system." Indeed, Young voted in favor of two Ryan budget blueprints that fundamentally change how Medicare works. Instead of the government paying for individual health services for seniors, seniors would receive a voucher-like credit toward the insurance plan of their choice, which includes a traditional Medicare option. Some argue the Democrats, too, are ending the current Medicare system by moving it from an open-ended entitlement program to one that tries to rein in spending by controlling how much physicians and insurers are reimbursed. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. So we rate it .
Statement: Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries.
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: May 20, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: an interview on Fox News' <i>America's Election HQ</i>
Fact-check justification: "I think he violated a rule of political campaigning," Cohen said. "Be as imprecise as possible when making generalizations." So while Obama is right that American presidents have met with some contentious leaders, he's  to say that they all had horrendous records. Gorbachev stands out as the strongest exception. We give Obama a .
Statement: Bath and Body Works products are not recommended during pregnancy because they are suspected of "damaging fertility or the unborn child.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 18, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims that Bath & Body Works products are not recommended to use while pregnant and points to warnings of infertility and organ failure. Although the warnings do appear in a company safety data document, there is no official recommendation for pregnant women to not use Bath & Body Works products. The disclosures aren’t aimed at consumers, the company said, and are typical and required for home fragrance companies. The purpose of safety sheets is to assist manufacturers and emergency personnel who need to know how to handle, store or dispose of large quantities of chemicals. We rate this  .
Statement: Secular Americans are the fastest-growing religious identification demographic in this country.
Speaker: freedom from religion foundation
About the speaker: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is based in Madison, Wis. It describes itself as a national nonprofit that “works to educate the public on matters relating to non-theism, and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state.”
Date: November 9, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: race and ethnicity;polls and public opinion;religion
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: Our rating The Freedom From Religion Foundation said: "Secular Americans are the fastest growing religious identification demographic in this country." It also used the term non-religious in place of secular. The statement is partially accurate, in that surveys identify unaffiliated Americans as the fastest-growing group. But the statement leaves out important details, namely that many Americans not affiliated with a particular religion are still religious. We rate the statement .
Statement: I remember landing under sniper fire.
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: March 17, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Washington, D.C
Fact-check justification: We found her statement that she negotiated open borders for Kosovars to be . There's no doubt flying into Bosnia was dangerous back in 1996, but the threat of sniper fire is not the same as actual sniper fire, and hustling off the tarmac is not the same as running with your head down. Yes, Clinton later acknowledged that she was mistaken, but it's hard to understand how she could err on something so significant as whether she did or didn't dodge sniper bullets. Quite simply, this kind of hyperbole deserves our harshest assessment. We rule .
Statement: The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax "is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness.
Speaker: yes on 84
About the speaker: The Yes on 84 campaign wants Oregon voters to approve Ballot Measure 84 this fall and end Oregon's estate tax.
Date: September 7, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: campaign material
Fact-check justification: One would think that Mannix, a former legislator with decades of experience in Oregon public policy, would understand that. Mannix corrected the statement in the "arguments" section online, although he still has an  statement on the "facts" page. We’re not going to elaborate on what we think about differentiating between arguments and facts, except to say that no matter what the label is, statements of fact should be accurate. This one isn’t. We rule the statement .
Statement: One-third of our college grads leave Ohio within three years.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: November 25, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;education;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: The Board of Regents figure does not account for the possibility some of those grads didn’t leave, but are unemployed. That’s information that provides clarification. And even if the unemployment rate is taken into consideration, the figure the governor used is still in the ballpark. And the message behind his statement, that Ohio is losing some of its youngest talent, is a accurate. On the -O-Meter, we rate the governor’s statement .
Statement: The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually.
Speaker: newsmax
About the speaker: Newsmax is a conservative magazine and website.
Date: January 14, 2011
Location: national
Topics: transparency
Context: an e-mail solicitation
Fact-check justification: When we asked Riedl about this, he said that "the point is that taxpayers paid for $146 million in largely unnecessary spending. Whether that accounts for 1 percent, 10 percent, or 50 percent of the total federal travel budget is irrelevant to that point." We do think that knowing the full context might give readers a different impression, and we believe the word "refusal" oversteps. But in general, the $146 million number was determined by what appears to be a credible methodology, and by a group -- the GAO -- without a partisan axe to grind. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: The Republican presidential nominee hasn't won women since 1988.
Speaker: heather mcghee
About the speaker: Heather C. McGhee is president of Demos, a group that believes too much political and economic power lies in the hands of too few people
Date: August 9, 2015
Topics: women;punditfact
Context: a panel discussion on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Our rating McGhee said, "The Republican presidential nominee hasn’t won women since 1988." The data, based on surveys of voters, backs her up. George H.W. Bush won his 1988 election campaign with just 1 percentage point more of female votes than his Democratic opponent. No Republican has "won" the fight for more women’s votes since. We rate McGhee’s  .
Statement: Nigerians are "burning Chinese stores.
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 19, 2020
Topics: china;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "  The paper said that "some of the affected traders were sobbing uncontrollably as their goods went up in flames," but the article makes no mention of Chinese stores, as the Facebook post claims. The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to the Daily Post , another Nigerian newspaper. Other news reports said witnesses reported a spark from a welder’s shop started the fire. While Africans are being evicted in the southern China city of Guangzhou over fears of a second wave of COVID-19 cases, we found no  supporting the  in this Facebook post that Nigerians burned down this building in retaliation.   We rate it .
Statement: He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens.
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: March 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;iraq
Context: a 'Today Show' interview
Fact-check justification: There's still a long way to go before the facility is closed, but we think Obama has made enough progress that we have rated his campaign promise to close the facility In the Works. So to sum up, while Romney offered backhanded praise for Obama's actions with regard to troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the failure to close Guantanamo, Romeny said those were all issues on which Obama changed his view from the campaign. We don't find that's accurate in any of the cases. In fact, Obama has not strayed very far from the views he expressed during the campaign. We rule Romney's statement .
Statement: Half the workforce in the country may have just been idled" by coronavirus.
Speaker: dan bishop
About the speaker: Dan Bishop is a North Carolina state Senator who represents Mecklenburg County in District 39. In 2019, he was a candidate for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District.
Date: April 24, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: economy;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Bishop said "half the workforce in the country may have just been idled."  Bishop took a stat that’s meant to illustrate the magnitude of unemployment and misused it to falsely say half of the country’s workers are unemployed. The U.S. workforce is roughly 160 million people. We found no official counts or expert estimates showing unemployment has reached half of that figure. Bishop’s  is only valid if we consider that 26 million people is equal to the working population of a specific group of 25 states, or if we look past the definition of "idle" and consider Americans who weren’t laid off, but whose wages were affected by the coronavirus outbreak. His  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected.
Speaker: john kitzhaber
About the speaker: John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was governor of Oregon for two terms, starting in 1995. He was inaugurated in 2011 for an unprecedented third term.
He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1978, rising to the position of Senate President. He spearheaded the Oregon Health Plan as a legislator and as governor. Kitzhaber graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University). He worked as an emergency room physician in Roseburg from 1974 to 1988.
Date: May 7, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: jobs
Context: an email to supporters
Fact-check justification: He’s essentially correct on the numbers. Technically, it’s 99,300 – though it’s important to note that it would have been 94,000 if he had counted from the time he was sworn in and affecting policy. It’s also important to note that governors have a modest influence on their state’s economy. We rate the  . To comment on this story, go to OregonLive/politics.com
Statement: Says with his guilty impeachment vote, Senator Mitt Romney "could be removed from office.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 6, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: A similar legal precedent may be a 1995 Supreme Court ruling that struck down an Arkansas challenge to set term limits on its representatives. The court ruled that states did not have the right to impose requirements for individuals to qualify for federal office. The blog post’s headline falsely states that Romney could be removed from office over his impeachment vote. It oversimplifies a state bill that contains several requirements, hasn’t passed and may not be constitutional if it does.   We rate this .
Statement: Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs.
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: September 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;trade
Context: an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Fact-check justification: Trump said that under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs." We did not find any study that estimates that NAFTA alone cost "millions" of jobs. The largest estimate is about 800,000, and other studies show smaller negative, and sometimes positive, impacts. We rate the statement . Editor's note, Sept. 24, 2018:  PolitiFact has joined an effort with other North American fact-checkers to examine statements about trade and tariffs. Poynter.org is documenting the project ; see its report for links to other fact-checks.