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Statement: Wisconsin ranks No. 2 in economic growth", according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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: September 24, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker said  the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank ranks Wisconsin as "No. 2 in economic growth." But the bank did not provide the information as a ranking and maintains it is not valid to make such state-to-state comparisons. What’s more, the number for each state is based in part on monthly employment numbers which Walker’s own administration has criticized as . Still, the fact the bank’s own website seems to invite a comparison. We rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: January 30, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: criminal justice;state budget
Context: email to MoveOn.org members
Fact-check justification: Private prison vendors say they have the authority to chase escaped prisoners beyond their property lines. Without getting into detailed security procedures, they say they have the same authority as public corrections officials. We've seen nothing to contradict those statements, but we’ve also seen nothing that strongly supports them, thanks to public records exemptions on their security plans. Even if they can pursue past their property lines, does that mean they will? The vendors say part of their escape plan is to immediately notify local authorities. The authorities we consulted said they would definitely take the lead if a prisoner went off campus, but they added that would be the case for a state-run facility, too. That brings us to the final part of the : This chase policy will result in "more escaped prisoners in our communities." While there are definitely horror stories resulting from inmate escapes, we don’t see the  that there are more escapes from private prisons. We would consider this point speculative. The email said, "Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities."  We rate this  .
Statement: In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.
Speaker: chuck grassley
About the speaker: Chuck Grassley is a Republican senator from Iowa.
Date: March 16, 2009
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: None of the reports we reviewed singled out shamed executives, however. In fact, the most commonly cited groups of special concern were laid-off workers, the elderly and the young. In conclusion, we find that Grassley gets the apologies and resignations right, but overstates the regularity of suicides. Apologies appear to be much more common than suicides. So we rate his statement .
Statement: The presence of gorillas calls into question the concept of evolution.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: May 31, 2016
Topics: science;punditfact
Context: the Rush Limbaugh Show
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said the presence of gorillas calls into question the concept of evolution. Limbaugh hit on a common misconception that humans evolved from modern-day apes. In reality, modern-day humans and modern-day gorillas are cousins, having both evolved from a common, but now extinct, ancestor. We rate Limbaugh’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/b42f712a-3014-4819-ac8e-9e84151e6146
Statement: Says Nevada lawmakers voted to allow teenaged boys to "shower with your teenaged girls in public school locker rooms.
Speaker: nevada assembly republican candidates
About the speaker: A group of Republican Assembly candidates in Nevada, lead by incumbent Assmemblyman Brent Jones, are distributing campaign flyers claiming that the state Legislature secretly passed laws allowing transgender students to use any bathroom.
Date: May 31, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: lgbtq
Context: multiple pieces of campaign literature
Fact-check justification: Several Republican Assembly candidates are claiming that legislators are forcing "boys to shower with girls." Putting aside questions about the nature of gender, these ads just aren’t accurate. They refer to a piece of legislation that  deals with creating new anti-bullying policies. There is no clearly defined mandate in Nevada state law regarding transgender student access to bathrooms and locker rooms, and school districts around the state have very different standards county-to-county. Given the likelihood of future litigation on both a federal and state level, it’s  to connect a vaguely worded anti-bullying bill to the much more complicated area of transgender student rights. We rate these ads . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/5b783899-a799-4b5e-be8a-eae37ab688f1
Statement: Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 15, 2021
Location: national
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: A headline says, "Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office." This information is bogus — there is no  that Biden has canceled his inauguration. Biden’s transition team has announced his plans for the inauguration ceremony and a nighttime celebration. On Jan. 7, Trump said a new administration will be inaugurated and called for a seamless transition.  We rate this  . RELATED: Joe Biden is right that more than 60 of Trump’s election lawsuits lacked merit RELATED: Fact-checking the House impeachment debate about Trump, Capitol riot
Statement: Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It's two paragraphs.
Speaker: elizabeth warren
About the speaker: Elizabeth Warren is a senator from Massachusetts. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. In 2019, she announced her race for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 5, 2020.
Date: February 19, 2020
Topics: health care
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Warren said, "Amy, I looked online at your (health care) plan. It’s two paragraphs." Warren’s campaign said she was referring to just the paragraphs that specifically addressed universal health care. That wasn't clear on stage, where she dismissed Klobuchar's health policy ideas as small enough to fit on a Post-It. Klobuchar's two paragraphs on universal health care are just one part of a four-webpage policy statement that collectively runs 64 paragraphs long. We rate the statement .
Statement: Millions of Americans need mental health care. Yet in Iowa, there are just 64 public mental health care beds. And you see similar numbers across the country.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: June 7, 2019
Location: national
Topics: public health
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Klobuchar tweeted, "Millions of Americans need mental health care. Yet in Iowa, there are just 64 public mental health care beds. And you see similar numbers across the country." Iowa’s Department of Human Services data show that there were 64 staffed psychiatric beds for adults in public hospitals, as of January 2019. The figure does not include beds available at the University of Iowa Health Care, which receives state funding, but the number of beds per capita is still very low compared to other states. Millions of Americans are living with serious mental illnesses, and 3.7 million U.S. adults living with serious mental illnesses did not receive treatment the year before the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health was conducted. We rate Klobuchar’s  .
Statement: Says she made an "accurate prediction" that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine.
Speaker: sarah palin
About the speaker: Sarah Palin was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008. She is also the former governor of Alaska and the author of  Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin's previous experience includes leading the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
Date: February 28, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;punditfact
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Palin said she predicted that Obama’s response to Russian military action in Georgia in 2008 would encourage Russia one day to invade Ukraine. The outside experts we reached did not find her words in 2008 to be a clear prediction, but they give her credit for accurately highlighting a place where a crisis in fact emerged. They did not agree with the logic behind her , however, and said there's a lot more to the story -- namely a history of America avoiding confrontation with Russia in its direct spheres of influence. Ultimately, whether Obama's actions somehow encouraged Putin and Russia to invade Ukraine is something Palin cannot prove. Her  is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: The only time over the last 25 years when the state's unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average was when (Mary) Burke was commerce secretary.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: February 4, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;economy;jobs;labor;state budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Our rating The Wisconsin GOP said: "The only time over the last 25 years when the state’s unemployment rate exceeded the U.S. average" was when Burke was state commerce secretary. The statistic is accurate and the  only indirectly blames Burke. We rate it . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page . Follow us on Twitter and Facebook .
Statement: After Hurricane Katrina, "Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: July 25, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;natural disasters 
Context: an e-mail
Fact-check justification: The state study also found that the share of evacuees who said they were benefiting from cash assistance, what we're assuming the chain e-mail scribe means by welfare, was only 5 percent. Significantly, we found no  to support the e-mail's  that White put up evacuees in apartments owned by his pals. So some details of the e-mail are right, but its most explosive — and damaging — claims aren't backed up by facts. We rate the e-mail . This story was updated to correct the number of Texans receiving TANF benefits to 111,920, including 7,929 Harris County residents.
Statement: Says Marjorie Taylor Greene said, "Jesus loves the U.S. most and that is why the Bible is written in English.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 26, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Another version of this quote has been misattributed to former Texas Gov. Miriam "Ma" Ferguson.   Some iteration has been around since 1881, when the New York Times reported that a preacher, commenting on a new translation of the Bible, told a joke that ended like this: "‘What’s the matter with the good old King James version?’ the farmer replied. ‘That was good enough for St. Paul, and it’s good enough for me." We rate this post .
Statement: Did you know under President Obama family health care premiums have increased $4,154 on the average?
Speaker: barbara comstock
About the speaker: Barbara Comstock, a Republican, has represented Virginia's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. She represented Fairfax County in Virginia's House of Delegates from 2010 to 2014.
Prior to that, Comstock held various staff positions on Capitol Hill. She did opposition research for the Republican National Commiittee, was a staffer on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and  a consultant in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. She is founding partner and co-principal of Corallo Comstock, a public relations and public policy firm.
Comstock was born in Springfield, Mass. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and Georgetown University Law Center.
 
Date: January 22, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "Did you know under President Obama family health care premiums have increased $4,154 on the average?" Comstock tweeted. She attributed her figure to the Kaiser Foundation’s 2014 survey on employer-based health insurance policies. First, the number is dubious. Kaiser doesn’t t assign statistics in its report to any president. To get to $4,154, Comstock uses Kaiser’s 2008 survey as the base year for Obama. That means she’s blaming Obama for some premiums that went into effect a year or more before he was inaugurated. If we use 2009 as the base year -- when Obama took office -- the increase is $3,459 and even this average would include some policies that were contracted before his presidency began. Second, Comstock’s charge lacks context. By just throwing out a number, the congresswoman suggests the premiums are spiraling. In fact, Kaiser says the rate of increase in the cost of employer-based family policies has slowed during the last five years. We rate Comstock’s statement .
Statement: After hearing "the frustrations parents and teachers have with the FCAT," next year "we begin improving our testing system.
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: August 20, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: economy
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Scott’s commercial leaves viewers with the impression that changes are coming to Florida’s standardized testing system because of him. Really, Florida’s shift from FCAT toward PARCC and end-of-course exams was in the works long before he came on the political scene. Scott is affirming a movement started by Florida’s former Education Commissioner Eric Smith. We rate his  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the election. See video fact-checks here .
Statement: ICE just endorsed me.
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: October 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "ICE just endorsed me." He made it sound like a federal agency had taken the remarkable step of formally supporting him. But ICE, which enforces federal immigration laws and employs more than 20,000 people, cannot do that. He has the support of employee groups, but that’s vastly different than what he said at the debate. We rate his  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/eb80b3d3-b4d9-41b9-941a-51a97bb4eeba
Statement: Jay-Z and Beyonce are buying back DMX's masters for $10 Million and giving to his kids for free.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 11, 2021
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said Beyonce and Jay-Z purchased the rights to DMX’s studio recordings and granted them to DMX’s children. We found no  of this. The family of the late rapper issued a statement April 12 saying  "no one" has purchased DMX’s collection. The rights to the masters remain with the various record groups he worked with during his career: We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones.
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: May 6, 2019
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a Medium post
Fact-check justification: Booker said, "Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones." His  only factors in consumer safety standards and discounted a volume of federal, state and local laws and rules regulating the sales and distribution of firearms, which are more restrictive than and outnumber those regulating toy guns. Since Booker’s  mischaracterized the scope of regulations for toy guns and firearms, and overlooked a body of key legislations, we rate this  .
Statement: Says "our economy in New Jersey gets $38 billion from the businesses at the Shore.
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: December 19, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: tourism
Context: a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”
Fact-check justification: During an interview on New Jersey 101.5’s "Ask the Governor" program, Christie said the beach will be rebuilt because "our economy in New Jersey gets $38 billion from the businesses at the Shore." But that 2011 figure applies to New Jersey’s entire tourism industry, from the northwestern stretches of Sussex County to the beaches of Wildwood. Of all visitor spending last year, nearly $19 billion, or slightly more than half, took place down the Shore in Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Half of all adults have a pre-existing condition" that could affect their health care coverage.
Speaker: jan schakowsky
About the speaker: Schakowsky was elected to represent Illinois' 9th Congressional District in 1998, after serving for eight years in the Illinois General Assembly. She is in her eleventh term.
Date: August 5, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview with MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Schakowsky said that half of all adults suffer from a pre-existing condition. Studies reflect a range of estimates and Schakowsky’s figure falls at the high end. A government analysis points to a mid-range estimate of 32 percent, a significant fraction of the adult population. We rate the statement .
Statement: All these athletes are dropping dead on the field" after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: January 26, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;wisconsin;coronavirus
Context: Radio interview
Fact-check justification: Johnson claimed that "all these athletes are dropping dead on the field" after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination.  But similar claims have repeatedly been debunked – doctors have not encountered athletes dropping dead from the vaccine. And doctors for the two European soccer players Johnson’s staff cited have said those cardiac episodes were not caused by the vaccine. There is also the obvious problem with those cases, as they relate to supporting Johnson’s , so far as that the two athletes are not, well, dead. Finally, health experts have also said that no research shows the link between sudden death incidents in sports players and vaccines.  We rate this  as .
Statement: The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent, is 90 percent.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: April 6, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: children;education
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: By that measure, the graduation rate for the Texas class of 2008 was 79 percent. So how do we grade Perry's statement? Perry accurately quotes the education agency's completion measurement, which is one way of figuring out how many students get a high-school education. But like other methods, it has its faults -- and one is that it tends to overcount students who finish school, and undercount those who don't. We rate his  as .