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Statement: Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.
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: December 8, 2022
Location: national
Topics: income;jobs;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: "Latina women work at the intersection of workplace discrimination, as women, Latinas, and some as immigrants," Neumann-Ortiz said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin. She noted that Latinas are concentrated in low-wage industries like service; domestic work; child care and home health care; and agriculture.    "The pandemic has made those inequalities greater because, in general, Latinas have less access to paid sick days or health care and carry a greater responsibility for child care and elder care that is hard when employers are not flexible," Neumann-Ortiz said.   Our ruling  Baldwin said "Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men. "   Two organizations looked at the data, and both reached the same figure.
Statement: Studies show at the minimum wage, you can't rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment.
Speaker: bobby scott
About the speaker: Bobby Scott, D-3rd, has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. The district is comprised of all of Charles City and Surry counties and Petersburg and Portsmouth and portions of Henrico and Prince George counties and Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond. Scott has seats on the Judiciary and Education and Labor committees.
Scott previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1979-83 and in the state Senate in 1983-93. He was a member of the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He was a lawyer in a private practice from 1973-91.
Scott was born in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1969 and a law degree from Boston College in 1973.
Date: July 15, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: housing;workers
Context: a hearing
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling Scott said, "The studies show at the minimum wage today, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States. I’m not talking about San Francisco or New York City, I’m talking about anywhere - a modest two-bedroom apartment." He was referring to annual studies by the National Low Income Housing Coalition that have found there is no U.S. locality where a minimum wage earner, working 40 hours a week, can find a "modest" two-bedroom home that will rent for 30% or less of his gross income. Scott accurately describes the findings and makes the key distinction that the results don’t apply to all apartments; just those statistically defined as "modest." We rate his statement .
Statement: We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs.
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: October 21, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: climate change;water
Context: a CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Scott said during the CNN debate, "We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions dollars to deal with coral reefs." The state has spent $100 million to help the Keys upgrade to a sewer system, which should improve water quality -- a benefit for coral reefs. Scott omits that it was under Crist that the Legislature passed a law paving the way for the money, and he's  to  it's "hundreds of millions." Scott’s office also pointed to a list of projects including flood mitigation, flood maps and beach protection -- and throws in the $100 million for the sewer project -- to make his  about $350 million to deal with sea-level rise. While these include worthy projects, experts say they aren't directly related to addressing future sea-level rise. They’re typical projects for Florida, not new measures to address climate change. We rate this  .
Statement: I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: August 6, 2015
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debates;public safety;terrorism
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Christie said, "I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state." Christie said he received a phone call on Sept. 10, 2001, that began the process of his appointment as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey. However, he wasn’t nominated until months later, and he was sworn into the position until the following year. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so we rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/4773c653-58b6-4f55-8158-c8b3e83ab0db
Statement: Says "special military helicopters will spray pesticide against the Corona virus in the skies all over the country.
Speaker: chain message
About the speaker: Anonymous chain messages often circulate on platforms like iMessage, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger during major news events.
Date: March 23, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Snapchat screenshot
Fact-check justification: According to the Environmental Protection Agency, disinfectants qualify as "antimicrobial pesticides" since they are used to kill bacteria and viruses. The agency has listed dozens of products on its website that meet the criteria for use against the coronavirus. The chain message is . We rate it . If you receive a chain message that you want us to fact-check, send a screenshot to [email protected] .
Statement: Ashley Hinson voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that made this money (for Iowa's locks and dams) possible. Once again she's taking credit for work she didn't do.
Speaker: liz mathis
About the speaker: State Sen. Liz Mathis, D-Hiawatha, is running for Congress against Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson in 2022. Mathis joined the Legislature in 2011 after a journalism career. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa.
Date: January 21, 2022
Location: iowa
Topics: infrastructure
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Liz Mathis has accused Ashley Hinson of taking undeserved credit for getting federal funding for Mississippi River locks and dams. The  is based on the fact that Hinson voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that is funding the works project.  Mathis ignores in her statement that Hinson lobbied the Army Corps of Engineers to spend funds from the bill on lock and dam repairs. Hinson says she wanted to make sure Iowa got its share of money made available by the bill.    But, additional money Hinson voted against had to be available for the $829 billion worth of work to be done. Had her "no" vote prevailed, the additional money may not have been available in future bills.  We rate Mathis’  to be .
Statement: H.R. 1 "mandates practices nationwide" that include "ballot harvesting, universal mail-in voting and same-day registration.
Speaker: alex mooney
About the speaker: Alex Mooney is a Republican representing a U.S. House district in West Virginia.
Date: March 3, 2021
Location: west virginia
Topics: elections
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Mooney said that H.R. 1 "mandates practices nationwide" that include "ballot harvesting, universal mail-in voting and same-day registration." He’s correct that H.R. 1 requires states to allow same-day registration, which is already used in many states.  H.R. 1 does not mandate ballot harvesting, but it would remove some restrictions on voters’ letting other people return their completed and sealed absentee ballot for them. H.R. 1 doesn’t mandate universal mail-in voting. Rather, the bill would make it easier for registered voters who choose to cast their ballot by mail to do so. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "Mike Coffman is with Trump.
Speaker: colorado's voice
About the speaker: Colorado's Voice is the state chapter of America's Voice, an immigration reform group.
Date: May 5, 2016
Location: colorado
Topics: immigration;congress
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Colorado’s Voice says "Mike Coffman is with Trump." That’s hardly clear. In February, Coffman’s spokeswoman said he would "support the Republican nominee," while hoping that person would be Marco Rubio. Since then, Coffman has criticized Trump’s "divisive campaign" and said the billionaire has a long way to go to earn his support. The group also says Coffman "supports the Trump agenda on immigration" as . Yet the congressman’s views have moderated, and Coffman has at times broken with hardline GOP positions on immigration. Claims that Coffman is in lockstep with Trump go too far. We rate it . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2f833b02-1b7c-4634-bd9e-09f51d5f7dc1
Statement: Says "31 U.S. troops" were "killed in Afghanistan yesterday.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 10, 2015
Topics: afghanistan;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: A social media post from 2015 about 30 troops killed "yesterday" in Afghanistan is being re-shared without historical context. It happened not in 2021 or 2015, but in 2011. We rate this  .
Statement: The Democratic Party just confirmed Michelle Obama will be its nominee and nobody noticed.
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: May 4, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: But that hardly amounts to the Democratic National Party confirming she will be the party’s presidential nominee, as the headline claims.   Some fans of the former first lady have wished she would run. Democratic political consultant Douglas Schoen wrote in a column for the Orange County Register that "should Biden step aside, there is only one Democrat that the Republican Party would truly, and with good reason, fear in 2024: Michelle Obama." But Obama has not signaled she will run for president, and the Democratic Party hasn’t confirmed she will be the Democratic presidential nominee.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says unemployment in Ohio "is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and it's always been that way.
Speaker: maurice thompson
About the speaker: Maurice A. Thompson is executive director of 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a law firm dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse.
Date: November 10, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;labor;unions
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: As for Ohio "always" having had a higher unemployment rate, a check of Ohio’s rate at its highest and lowest points over the past decade shows 14 of the right-to-work states had higher unemployment rates than Ohio when the rate was at its lowest. And when Ohio’s rate was at its highest, there still were four right-to-work states with higher jobless rates. Ohio’s unemployment rate is not higher than all right-to-work states and very likely has never been.    Thompson’s  is not accurate. On the -O-Meter, we rate his  .
Statement: The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: July 22, 2021
Topics: economy
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Biden said that "the cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic." It’s not back to where it was, or even close. Federal and private-sector data agrees: New and used car prices are on an upward trajectory, smashing records along the way. We rate the statement .
Statement: By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests.
Speaker: sheila resseger
About the speaker: Sheila Resseger, of Cranston, Rhode Island, is a retired teacher who taught at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf.
Date: January 10, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: education;families
Context: a newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: Retired teacher Sheila Resseger wrote that "By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core tests." While there’s no official tally of students opting out, the unofficial but detailed tallies by Common Core opponents show more than 38,000 students boycotted the English test and more than 44,000 students boycotted the math test. And those are numbers from just half the state’s districts. Those numbers and the other  we found suggest that the 60,000 is not only accurate, but perhaps understated. But there’s no precise count. Because the statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rate it  .
Statement: Dead people always vote Democrat.
Speaker: kevin rinke
About the speaker: Kevin Rinke is a car dealer and a candidate seeking the Republican nomination for governor in Michigan in 2022.
Date: June 1, 2022
Location: michigan
Topics: elections
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: However, six cases that have surfaced during the past five years produced either a plea of guilty or no contest, and in each case the defendant was either a registered Republican or acknowledged voting for Trump.   Even this small number of cases is enough to invalidate Rinke’s sweeping statement that only Democrats do this. We rate the statement . RELATED : All of our fact-checks about elections RELATED : All of our fact-checks about Michigan
Statement: In my home state, nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty.
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 6, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: poverty
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that "nearly one in five Floridians live in poverty." He points to 2012 census data which showed that 17.1 percent of Floridians lived in poverty,  which would mean about one in six Floridians live in poverty. The percentage is slightly lower if we look at the three year average which showed 15.4 percent living in poverty -- still about one in six. Rubio’s numbers are close. We rate his  .
Statement: Says the USMCA is the "biggest trade deal ever made.
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: January 30, 2020
Topics: trade
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is the "biggest trade deal ever made." The deal is more incremental than Trump describes. It updates NAFTA and introduces changes for the auto industry and the United States’ access to Canada’s dairy market. It also implements new policies on intellectual property protection, labor and environmental standards and digital trade. In terms of U.S. trade deals, the USMCA replaces NAFTA as the biggest American deal. Overall, multiple other trade deals around the world eclipse the USMCA in terms of the number of countries involved and economic output.  We rate this .
Statement: For every Kentuckian that has enrolled in Obamacare, 40 have been dropped from their coverage.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: May 2, 2014
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;health care
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: Paul said that "for every Kentuckian that has enrolled in Obamacare, 40 have been dropped from their coverage." That’s not mathematically possible. If you take the narrowest definition of "sign-ups," there would have to be 3.3 million cancellations in the state for Paul’s statement to be accurate -- and there aren’t even that many Kentuckians with private insurance plans that could theoretically be canceled. In fact, it’s reasonable to argue that more people in Kentucky have coverage through Obamacare than have been canceled. Paul’s statement is so wildly off that we rate it . UPDATE, May 6, 2014 : After we published this item, Paul’s office contacted us to explain how they calculated the 40-to-1 ratio of cancellations to signups. The office said that "the numbers he used were accurate as of November of last year" but that staffers failed "to update the numbers for the newsletter." Specifically, Paul’s office said that a Nov. 8, 2013, news release from the Kentucky governor’s office reported that 7,011 Kentuckians had enrolled in a private health plan through Nov. 8, compared to the 280,000 Kentuckians who the state believed at the time might be subject to cancellation notices. However, in the six months since, the number of private-plan signups has soared by a factor of 10, while the state released a smaller estimate of cancellation notices (168,000). Even in November, Paul’s estimate was cherry-picked; it excluded the 33,561 Kentuckians who enrolled in Medicaid, a program that saw its eligibility expanded under Obamacare. Even though the new numbers were available to Paul’s staff at the time the newsletter was put together, Paul’s office counted only the first two months of signups and ignored the final six months, a period when enrollment rose steadily. Our ruling stands: .
Statement: There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now.
Speaker: sanford bishop
About the speaker: Democrat Sanford Bishop represents Georgia's 2nd Congressional District
Date: July 23, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;military;veterans
Context: an online video of an earlier speech
Fact-check justification: Veterans are faring better than U.S. workers as a whole. In June, the unemployment rate for all workers stood at 8.2 percent, according to the BLS. In conclusion, Bishop said in his speech before Congress that there were "close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now." This number is a bit lower than the yearly average and higher than the latest unemployment figures available at the time. His statement rates a  on the -O-Meter.
Statement: Incredibly, some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state.
Speaker: richard corcoran
About the speaker: Richard Corcoran is Florida's appointed education commissioner. He was elected to the state House in 2010 and served as House Speaker 2016-2018.
Date: January 29, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Corcoran said, "some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state." Corcoran’s ad was referring to Gillum and Democratic politicians, who sponsored legislation in support of sanctuary cities. Gillum was critical of Trump’s executive order threatening to suspend funding, but he has not offered a specific statewide policy for not cooperating with detainer requests from immigration enforcement officials. Last year, Florida Democrats sponsored legislation that emphasized immigration enforcement as a federal responsibility, not a local one, but that bill died in committees. With everything considered, we rate this  .
Statement: The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money
Speaker: doreen costa
About the speaker: Doreen Costa, who is also active in the Tea Party, has been a State Representative since 2011. 
Date: August 10, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: children;drugs;economy;families;government regulation;poverty;state budget;florida;marijuana
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: But she was unable to produce any studies to back up that . The ones we found showed that the costs to the state exceed any savings. And Rhode Island can't save money by kicking people off the welfare rolls because federal funds finance the payments, and the federal government does not allow states to keep money saved through mandatory drug testing. We rate her statement  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/22c847d7-83db-4053-b621-e27c676778a7
Statement: Says most states, but not Texas, permit jurors to ask questions of witnesses in trials.
Speaker: efrain de la fuente
About the speaker: Efrain De La Fuente is an Austin lawyer. He says he served in the Army as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and also has worked as a Travis County assistant district attorney.
Date: November 29, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a forum
Fact-check justification: As De La Fuente said, Texas is among the minority of states that bar juror questioning in criminal trials. Contrary to what he said at the forum, however, Texas is among the majority of states allowing judges to permit juror questions in civil trials. We rate his overly sweeping  .