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Statement: Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: June 8, 2016
Topics: global news service;foreign policy;public health
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Clinton said 9 million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine thanks to the efforts of the Clinton Foundation and her husband. Bill Clinton started the foundation and its first big project was the Clinton Health Access Initiative. The program focused on using market mechanisms to reduce treatment costs. Costs have fallen dramatically and the initiative remains a key global player in maintaining a steady supply of affordable drugs. If anything, Clinton understated the number of people who have benefited from the program. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/037cffe5-607a-4a13-9fe8-a78567e75857
Statement: The states that have raised the minimum wage (this year) have had faster job growth than the states that haven't raised the minimum wage.
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: October 3, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;states;workers
Context: Princeton, Ind
Fact-check justification: Obama said "the states that have raised the minimum wage have had faster job growth than the states that haven’t raised the minimum wage." The White House told us they were referring to the seasonally adjusted growth of non-farm jobs since December 2013.  On the numbers, Obama has a point -- at least when using the very specific time frame he chose. But economists say that the numbers are too noisy, the margins of error are too big, and the time frame may be too short to be certain that we’re seeing the effect of a higher minimum wage. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of  context, so we rate it .
Statement: I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: June 23, 2017
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Fox & Friends
Fact-check justification: Furthermore, none of them have worked for Clinton directly. Two represented either the Clinton Foundation or an aide, never her, and working for WilmerHale, which has also represented key members of Trump’s White House. The Justice Department has looked into the contributions and employment histories of all of their hires and determined them consistent with the rules of professional responsibility. Trump’s implication is that the investigation is politically motivated, but we see nothing to support that. We rate this statement .
Statement: A 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would "be much better -- in terms of the portion of the public financing -- than most of the other arena projects done around the country.
Speaker: tim sheehy
About the speaker: Tim Sheehy is president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
Date: April 10, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;recreation;sports;state budget;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Arenas built with 50% or less public money NBA city Year arena built Total cost Portion paid by taxpayers per the textbook Portion paid by taxpayers per Marquette Dallas 2001 $420 million 50% 30% Toronto 1999 $265 million 0% 0% Denver 1999 $160 million 22% 3% Los Angeles 1999 $375 million 16% 19%    There was not agreement between the between the two sources on the public portion paid for arenas in Brooklyn, Indianapolis and Atlanta: NBA city Year arena built Total cost Portion paid by taxpayers per the texbook Portion paid by taxpayers per Marquette Indianapolis 1999 $183 million 100% 43% Atlanta 1999 $214 million 29% 91% Brooklyn 2010 $637 million 24% N/A   Our rating Sheehy said a 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would "be much better in terms of the portion of the public financing than most of the other arena projects done around the country." Of the 15 NBA arenas -- comprising half the cities in the league -- built since 1999, at least eight were built with more than 50 percent of the money coming from taxpayers. Seven of those eight were built with at least 82 percent public money. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says Troy Nehls "called wearing masks 'un-American' and called those who do 'communists.'
Speaker: sri preston kulkarni
About the speaker: Sri Preston Kulkarni, a former U.S. foreign service officer, was the Democratic nominee for the District 22 U.S. House seat in the Houston area in 2018 and 2020.
Date: October 23, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Kulkarni claimed that Nehls "called wearing masks 'un-American' and called those who do 'communists.'" Nehls called Harris County’s mask mandate un-American and compared it to a communist dictatorship. He was not talking about masks or people who wear them. We rate the statement . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.
Statement: It is estimated that every $100 million spent on construction generates 3,000 new jobs.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: January 12, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs;transportation
Context: the State of the Commonwealth address
Fact-check justification: Much of that $100 million would preserve existing jobs, not create new ones, And of those "supported" jobs, just one-third are directly tied to the construction project. More than half are supposed to stem from trickle-down spending as the wages received by construction or other road-related workers are spent. If the wages get diverted to paying down credit card debt or saving for retirement, that spending is diminished. McDonnell had some rich data in his tank and overshot his exit. We rate his statement .
Statement: The Mueller investigation is "soon to be $20,000,000.
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: May 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;legal issues
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that the Mueller investigation will soon be $20 million. Officially, it’s not costing that much. Counting direct costs only, as Justice Department and executive branch accounting rules specify, the investigation’s first year cost an estimated $8.5 million, assuming Mueller’s team continued to spend at the same rate it did for the first four and a half months. (It could be months before we have updated figures.) However, with the addition of indirect costs, the first year would be expected to cost a prorated $17.9 million, which is within shouting distance of the $20 million Trump cited. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Martha McSally "voted to take away money from Fort Huachuca to pay for the border wall.
Speaker: mark kelly
About the speaker: Mark Kelly is a U.S. Senator from Arizona. Kelly is a retired astronaut and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., who was injured in a January 2011 shooting. The couple founded advocacy group Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Date: October 6, 2020
Topics: immigration;homeland security;military
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Later that year, she said the Fort Huachuca project was delayed anyway due to environmental cleanup issues at the site. Kelly’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 7, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook video
Fact-check justification: Hecker’s video clip said "the Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years." This is . There are about 120,000 records in Wisconsin’s voter database that show a default registration date of 1/1/1918, but this is not representative of voters who have been registered for 100 years. Rather, it’s the result of a data migration workaround that came about 16 years ago when Wisconsin merged its statewide database with municipal databases. We rate this  .  RELATED: Are dead people among the names in Wisconsin voter roll purge? RELATED : Fact-checking the avalanche of Wisconsin election misinformation
Statement: Says Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett did not want a juvenile facility in Milwaukee, "has never been to a juvenile facility," and "didn't want it to be done.
Speaker: lena taylor
About the speaker: Lena Taylor is a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2004. She previously served for nearly two years in the state Assembly.
Date: March 14, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;criminal justice;public safety;states
Context: a community meeting
Fact-check justification: Our rating Taylor said Tom Barrett did not want a juvenile facility in Milwaukee, "has never been to a juvenile facility" and "didn't want it to be done." The mayor was opposed to early plans, but mainly because of concerns about the possibility of violent offenders being placed in neighborhood group homes instead of a secure facility. While he initially suggested reopening Ethan Allen in Waukesha County, he has backed a city site. As for the visit to a juvenile facility, while Ujima House is a far cry from Lincoln Hills, the mayor has visited numerous other facilities. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: Florida students take "an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year.
Speaker: florida badass teachers association
About the speaker: The Badass Teachers Association is a nationwide group that fights to reduce or eliminate testing. It has chapters in several states including Florida.
Date: February 10, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a statement to the Miami Herald
Fact-check justification: Florida students take "an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year," said James, a Miami-Dade teacher. Test days do appear to have risen in recent years, and students are not only affected by the tests they take themselves, but also by the impact of other students in their school taking tests. Pinpointing the number of days that students take standardized tests is difficult because it varies widely depending by grade, school, district and other factors. Even so, critics of the amount of testing did not provide hard  of any student taken up with testing for 45 total days a year, much less that it is a typical result in Florida. In fact, James’ own district said that the maximum number of hours spent on such tests would equal about 44 hours -- a small fraction of the figure James cited. We rate this  .
Statement: Eliminating earmarks does not reduce spending.
Speaker: richard lugar
About the speaker: Richard Lugar is a Republican Senator from Indiana.
Date: November 16, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget
Context: a prepared statement
Fact-check justification: Indirectly, earmarks may have an I'll-scratch-your-back-if-you-scratch-mine effect that pushes spending upward.  Under the status quo, however, our experts agreed that Lugar is largely correct -- ending earmarks won't directly reduce spending, only re-direct it. There are other plausible reasons to advocate for an earmark ban, such as ending unseemly horse-trading with taxpayer dollars. But without a thorough overhaul of the budgeting process, saving money directly isn't one of them.  We rate Lugar's statement .
Statement: Microsoft and Bill Gates created a 1999 video game called "Omikron.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 4, 2021
Location: national
Topics: science;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  Microsoft and Bill Gates created a 1999 video game called "Omikron." This is . A real game called Omikron was available on Microsoft in 1999, but neither Gates nor Microsoft created it, and it had nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, as these posts suggest. The term omicron is from the Greek alphabet, which has been used by health officials to name coronavirus variants. The word has also been used to name stars and appears in multiple popular culture references. We rate this .
Statement: If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens' ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class.
Speaker: tim ryan
About the speaker: Tim Ryan is a representative of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. Ryan served the state’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 until 2013, when he assumed office to represent the 13th District. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president. In 2022, he is running for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Date: June 11, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;education;income
Context: a House of Representatives floor speech
Fact-check justification: While it flies in the face of the notion that anyone can rise from the bottom to the top in the United States, a number of studies uphold Ryan’s contention that America’s social mobility lags behind that of many other countries. America’s exact ranking in those studies depends on which countries are surveyed, but the research Ryan alluded to did find the U.S. to be 10th among the 12 examined countries. However, it is important to clarify that those 12 were all developed countries, and other research has found that U.S. social mobility exceeds that of developing countries.   Ryan did not qualify his statement to reflect that. We rate it .
Statement: In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: July 23, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: economy
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Gingrich said that in economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year." Measured by the annual change in inflation-adjusted GDP -- the typical measurement -- Gingrich is correct. But it’s worth noting that if you strip out the impact of population growth, the Clinton-Obama comparison is more mixed. We rate the statement .
Statement: At my first 'Let's Get to Work Day' … we sold out;" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.
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: candidate biography;economy;jobs
Context: his State of the State address
Fact-check justification: She said the 240-dozen figure includes all of the doughnuts sold at both Nicola’s locations throughout the entire day Scott worked at the bakery. But she also reconfirmed that the shop Scott worked at sold about 80 dozen while he was there. At PolitiFact Florida, we’re almost as serious about our doughnuts as we are our fact-checks. We rate Scott’s "240 dozen"  . Now can somebody pass a maple glazed?
Statement: Says Mike Dovilla supports a plan "that could allow a foreign corporation to take over the Ohio Turnpike" 
Speaker: ohio democratic party
About the speaker: Statewide organization for Ohio's Democrats.
Date: October 25, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: infrastructure;state budget;transportation
Context: an election flier
Fact-check justification: Rarely these days is any Statehouse bill of a single intent or purpose. Such is the case especially with budget bills, which are typically thousands of pages, containing budget provisions for dozens of state agencies, departments, boards and commissions. It is unreasonable to conclude that a vote in favor of such a massive document indicates 100-percent support of everything within it. Those are critical facts that would give a listener a different impression of the . On the -O-Meter this statement rates .
Statement: State employees in Wisconsin earn "about 8 percent less" than if they worked in the private sector.
Speaker: bryan kennedy
About the speaker: Bryan Kennedy is president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, known as AFT-Wisconsin, a union that represents professional employees who work for the state or local government. In 2004 and 2006, he ran as a Democrat against U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls).
Date: December 5, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: A second study focused on state workers and pay, but it didn’t come out to 8 percent. What’s more, Kennedy’s statement skips a key point -- one union leaders have made over the years -- that pay is lower because benefits are higher. In sum, Kennedy did not provide  that supports his , which itself provides only a partial look at the debate. If any more  emerges, we’ll review it. In the meantime, we rate Kennedy’s  .
Statement: West Virginia is poised to "receive $25M for 160 orphaned well clean-up projects across the state.
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: August 26, 2022
Location: west virginia
Topics: environment;infrastructure
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The federal money will be used not only to remediate the 160 known wells but also can be applied to wells that have not yet been identified. West Virginia could receive additional money for orphan wells in the future, under different provisions of the law. Our ruling  Manchin tweeted that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is on track to provide West Virginia with "$25M for 160 Orphaned Well Clean-up Projects." Manchin’s office shared a document with PolitiFact West Virginia confirming that the Interior Department has authorized $25 million under the law for an initial grant to remediate orphan wells.   We rate Manchin’s statement .
Statement: New jobs numbers are in, and Wisconsin has "fallen to dead last in Midwest job growth.
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: September 23, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Burke’s ad renews the  that Wisconsin rates last in the Midwest in terms of job creation. She’s arrives at that conclusion by citing accurate data, but by using an unconventional shift in the time frame to make her point. The ad also ignores the most recent 12-month performance -- a common yardstick for economists -- that says Wisconsin’s performance improved and was better than two other Midwest states. We rate the  . (Read our tipsheet on five things to watch for when you hear jobs claims)
Statement: Biden 'child porn' shock" headline was "front page news in Australia.
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: November 10, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The story ran in at least two other publications in Australia, Northern Territory News on Page 22 and the Townsville Bulletin on Page 23 . Both those publications and the Daily Telegraph are connected to News Corp Australia .   We found no  that such a story about Hunter ran elsewhere on front pages in Australia.    We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.