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Statement: Harry Reid says he does more for Nevada. He's done more for unemployment. We were at 4.4 percent. Now we're at 14 percent. He's done more for the foreclosure rate. We have the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. He's done more for bankruptcy. We have the highest bankruptcy rate in the nation.
Speaker: sharron angle
About the speaker: Sharron Angle is a former member of the Nevada Assembly who unsuccessfully tried to unseat Harry Reid in 2010 as the Republican nominee for his U.S. Senate seat.
Date: July 21, 2010
Location: national
Topics: bankruptcy;economy;housing;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In any case, it’s up to voters to determine how much impact any one Senator has had on his state’s bankruptcy, foreclosure, and unemployment rates -- even if that Senator is the Majority Leader. Angle has quoted her figures correctly, but there’s more to the story than her ad implies. She cherry-picked numbers for one , comparing past unemployment rates in Nevada to the current rate. And she forcefully attributes Nevada’s woes to Reid -- while his responsibility is unclear at best. We’ll rate this one .
Statement: There is no evidence Biden's spending produced one job. Nonpartisan projections for job growth in 2021, not including that American Rescue Plan, showed higher job growth than Biden produced.
Speaker: ben shapiro
About the speaker: Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator and columnist who founded The Daily Wire.
Date: March 1, 2022
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;jobs
Context: a YouTube video
Fact-check justification: Shapiro said, "There is no  Biden’s spending produced one job. Nonpartisan projections for job growth in 2021, not including that American Rescue Plan, showed higher job growth than Biden produced." Most experts we spoke with disagreed with Shapiro's assertion that the economy didn’t add any jobs from the American Rescue Plan, though several said that we can’t really know for sure. But Shapiro was  about 2021 jobs numbers underperforming projections made before the law was passed; the economy added more jobs than anticipated. We rate the statement . UPDATE, March 17, 2022 : The Daily Wire updated its transcript of Shapiro’s speech following publication of this fact-check to note the following: "The CBO originally estimated that 6,252,000 would be produced. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported a 6,743,000 net change in jobs for all of 2021. This contradicts the  that jobs growth claims were higher than what Biden produced."
Statement: Fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men.
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: February 27, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;race and ethnicity
Context: an event at the White House
Fact-check justification: Obama said that "fewer black and Latino men participate in the labor force, compared to young white men." That’s  for black men age 16-19 and 20-24 and for Hispanic men age 16-19, but it’s not correct for Hispanic men age 20-24. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Glenn Grothman pushed through state tax credits that when phased in, "someone that owns a factory that produces millions in income" will pay "less tax than their nephew would if he worked full time at Taco Bell for minimum wage.
Speaker: mark harris
About the speaker: Mark Harris, a Wisconsin Democrat, served as mayor of Oshkosh, where he also served on the city council, and as a county supervisor in Winnebago County. He has served as the Winnebago County Executive since being elected in 2005. He was the 2014 Democratic nominee for the seat being vacated by Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, and lost in the general election to State Senator Glenn Grothman. He formerly practiced as a lawyer and certified public accountant.
Date: September 2, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;small business;state budget;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Once the credits pushed by Grothman are fully phased in, in 2016, some factory owners who earn up to roughly $2.5 million from production income from the factory will owe less in state income tax on that production income than a full-time worker earning minimum wage. But factory owners earning above that amount from production income would pay more than the minimum-wage worker, and more on any other income that doesn’t come from production. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, our definition of . To comment on this story, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel web page .   This item was changed on Sept. 15, 2014 to clarify that the tax rate on production income above roughly $2.6 million is effectively 0.15 percent.
Statement: New York's 1,200+ homeless veterans are ineligible for these $15,600 payments.
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: April 8, 2021
Topics: homeless;veterans;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cotton said, "New York's 1,200+ homeless veterans are ineligible for these $15,600 payments." The post mischaracterizes a program that would provide aid to people who were excluded from other aid programs because of their immigration status. The vast majority of homeless veterans are already U.S. citizens or legal residents, and thus are not the population the Excluded Worker Fund was designed to help. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country.
Speaker: sheila oliver
About the speaker: Sheila Oliver is the speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. A Democrat, Oliver represents parts of Essex and Passaic counties.
Date: February 27, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: education
Context: a speech at Rider University
Fact-check justification: In a speech at Rider University, Oliver claimed "New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country." According to educational attainment data from the U.S. Census Bureau, her  is pretty much on target. In 2009 and 2010, New Jersey ranked fifth for the percentage of its population, 25 years old and over, who have at least a bachelor’s degree. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Florida is one of only 10 states that totally prohibit a (firearm) registry.
Speaker: perry thurston
About the speaker: State Sen. Perry Thurston represents parts of Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale. Perry, a Democrat, is an attorney who was first elected to the Florida House in 2006. He has served in the Senate since 2016.
Date: February 26, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: regulation;guns
Context: a Senate committee meeting
Fact-check justification: Thurston said, "Florida is one of only 10 states that totally prohibit a registry." Florida law does explicitly say a registry of firearm purchases cannot be maintained. Thurston was close but not precise about the number of other states that prohibit registries. It’s seven, not 10. We rate this statement .
Statement: The  firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights.
Speaker: donna brazile
About the speaker: A longtime Democratic political consultant and campaign manager for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Currently a political commentator for CNN and frequent commentator on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Date: February 20, 2011
Location: national
Topics: pundits;state budget;this week - abc news;workers
Context: an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
Fact-check justification: Brazile said, "The  firefighters, the policemen and others who supported (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker) in his election bid ... don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights." It’s  that Walker won the endorsement of Milwaukee police and firefighter organizations, and they won’t lose collective bargaining rights if Walker’s proposal succeeds. But not all unions supported Walker. In fact, the two significant statewide organizations endorsed his opponent, and they too would be exempt from restrictions on collective bargaining. Because the statement leaves out the fact that the police and fire unions broke ranks on whether or not to support Walker, we rate this statement .
Statement: China recovered from COVID-19 "without a vaccine.
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: December 1, 2020
Topics: china;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says that China has recovered from the coronavirus without a vaccine.  Through a number of severe restrictions, widespread testing, and high compliance among residents there, the country has largely succeeded in bringing the virus to heel but it has not returned to normal operations. In schools, for example, millions of children wear masks and have their temperature checked multiple times a day. And new cases of COVID-19 are still being identified in China.  The country also has a vaccine, and Chinese officials say nearly 1 million people have been vaccinated.  We rate this post .
Statement: Says Rob Portman was a registered foreign agent whose "client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: October 20, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: corrections and updates;foreign policy
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Strickland said of Portman, "You were a registered foreign agent, and your client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people." Portman was a registered foreign agent who worked on behalf of a company based in Hong Kong. His firm’s clients included "Baby Doc" Duvalier’s government. But Portman himself did no work for the Haitian regime, according to a sworn statement by the firm’s managing partner. We rate Strickland's statement . Correction: The original version of this fact-check incorrectly called Rob Portman a registered lobbyist. He was a registered foreign agent, a classification that included lobbying under the law at that time.
Statement: At 17 years old Kyle (Rittenhouse) was perfectly legal to be able to possess that rifle without parental supervision.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 27, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corrections and updates;facebook fact-checks;guns
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: At worst, it’s . Either way, we rate the post . UPDATE, Sept. 3, 2020: This fact-check has been updated to include mention that Wisconsin law permits people 18 years and older to carry firearms in public without a license if the gun is visible. The ruling is unchanged.
Statement: We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.
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 22, 2017
Location: national
Topics: energy;trade
Context: Phoenix
Fact-check justification: Trump said that "we have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently." This statement is problematic regardless of how you interpret his statement -- gross energy exports, net energy exports, gross crude-oil exports, and net natural gas exports. The closest he would come to being accurate is if he were referring to net natural gas exports, but even there, it hasn’t happened yet, contrary to what his past-tense statement indicates. We rate the statement .
Statement: 99.97 percent of the kids live in poverty that attend Cleveland public schools.
Speaker: sandra williams
About the speaker: Sandra Williams is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. She was first elected in 2006. She represents the 11th District, which encompasses part of Cleveland.
Date: March 21, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: education;poverty
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: That’s an important detail. Her figure of 99.97 percent would mean all but roughly 13 students in the district live in poverty. If the state’s 95 percent figure is correct, that would mean about 2,100 students are not living in poverty. If the poverty percentage is at 89 percent (the figure the state used  for students eligible for free and reduced meals for the 2010-11 school year), it would mean 4,600 students are not living in poverty. On the -O-Meter, Williams’  rates .
Statement: We've seen more anti-women's choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we've seen in the last three General Assemblies.
Speaker: armond budish
About the speaker: Rep. Armond Budish, a Democrat from Beachwood, Ohio, formerly was speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Be became the minority leader in 2011 after Republicans regained control of the House in the 2010 elections.
Date: January 31, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: abortion
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: It did not include such measures as HB 180, creating the "Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club" license plate and prohibiting any money raised by it to go to "abortion-related activities." The list showed 11 bills that would affect abortion rights from 2011, the first session of the 129th General Assembly. That’s more than any of the three previous two-year sessions. There were eight bills in 128th General Assembly, nine in the 127th and six in the 126th. We rate Budish's statement as .
Statement: Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don't have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar.
Speaker: solar energy fairness
About the speaker: Solar Energy Fairness is a Nevada-based political action committee funded by the state's energy monoploy, NV Energy. The group airs ads arguing that a proposed ballot measure that seeks to restore previous net metering rates would result in a subsidy for other power customers.
Date: April 13, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: energy
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A pro-NV Energy backed group is running ads claiming that "Nevada families who don’t have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar." The net-metering subsidy question is complex and likely takes more than a 30-second television ad to explain in full. The root of the subsidy  comes from a Public Utilities Commission decision that has been criticized for focusing too narrowly on the costs of the program. Rooftop solar systems have traditionally seen subsidies on both the state and federal level, but without hard  of a cost-shift occurring under the previous net metering rates, it’s a difficult argument to hold up. The reality is more complicated than Solar Energy Fairness puts on. We rate this  as . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a31514aa-c154-4824-9ec9-400e0a178cdf
Statement: More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty.
Speaker: occupied wall street journal
About the speaker: The Occupied Wall Street Journal is a newspaper of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Date: October 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care;jobs;occupy wall street;poverty;workers
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The numbers in the Occupied Wall Street Journal rely on the broadest definitions of economic deprivation in America, but they are at odds with official government statistical definitions. While the number for the uninsured is essentially correct, the indicators for unemployment and poverty refer to broader, alternative measures that have some usefulness in policy discussions but that aren’t accurately described by the terminology in the article. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: Barack Obama's plan gives a driver's license to any illegal who wants one.
Speaker: national republican trust pac
About the speaker: A conservative political action committee.
Date: October 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: If Obama were to offer a specific plan on the subject, who knows what restrictions it would include? Certainly not the National Republican Trust. So this group is guilty of some serious hyperbole. It took words of support from Obama for the concept of granting drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants and portrayed them not just as a specific plan, but as one that would hand licenses out like candy. We find it .
Statement: The coronavirus has made it to Mississippi and the lady that caught it wasn't around nobody with it which means it is airborne. That means if the wind blows it your direction you'll have it also.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 28, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The Facebook post says a woman in Mississippi was infected by the coronavirus and that it was airborne.  We’re still learning about the coronavirus and how it spreads, but this isn’t accurate.  Currently, there are no confirmed cases in Mississippi, and while it has been suggested that coronavirus could be airborne, it hasn’t been documented to spread that way. Rather, the virus’s spread has been documented via respiratory droplets mainly when an infected person coughs or sneezes.  We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Dave Brat said "the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more.
Speaker: jack trammell
About the speaker: Jack Trammell, the Democratic Party candidate for the 7th Congressional District in 2014, is an assistant professor of sociology and director of disability support services at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland. He graduated from Grove City College, Grove City, Pa., and a master's and doctorate degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, along with a special education certification program at the University of Virginia.
Trammell has been an educator at the K-12 or university level for more than 20 years. He also writes nonfiction, fiction and children's books. He lives on a farm in Louisa County wiht his wife Audrie, a special education teacher and artist. He has seven children.
Date: October 20, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: message machine 2014;social security
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Trammell says Brat said "the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more." Trammell tries a typical scare tactic -- attacking a Republican as threatening to cut seniors’ benefits. But his campaign didn’t provide examples of Brat making that actual , and Brat’s support of the idea of grandfathering today’s seniors -- and those retiring within 10 years -- would protect them. Brat opened the door to some speculation about his views by making open-ended statements about reforming Social Security during the GOP primary this spring. But Trammell has gone overboard in interpreting them and putting words in Brat’s mouth. We rate Trammell’s statement .
Statement: Says Dr. Anthony Fauci planned the AIDS epidemic.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 26, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The suggestion that comments Fauci made in 1984 are  that he plotted AIDS — which emerged in the United States several years earlier, but whose roots date back decades — is  and . !
Statement: Since 1961 … our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million).
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: September 5, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;jobs
Context: Charlotte, N.C
Fact-check justification: Clinton’s figures check out, and they also mirror the broader results we came up with two years ago. Partisans are free to interpret these findings as they wish, but on the numbers, Clinton’s right. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Jacky Rosen "voted against stopping criminals from re-entering the United States.
Speaker: senate leadership fund
About the speaker: Senate Leadership Fund is a Super PAC with the stated goal to "protect and expand the Republican Senate Majority." 
Date: September 25, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration;crime
Context: an attack ad
Fact-check justification: The Senate Leadership Fund said Rosen "voted against stopping criminals from re-entering the United States," citing Kate’s Law. Rosen did vote against Kate’s Law, which increased penalties for those trying to re-enter the country. However, the ad leaves out that Rosen voted in favor of another bill that specifically targeted the sort of gang members presented in the ad. The measure gave federal officers wide latitude in defining gang membership and empowered them to detain and remove any person they had reason to believe was involved with a gang. Rosen’s voting record undercuts the ad’s . We rate it .
Statement: Says 7,000 millionaires "gamed the system to pay no income taxes.
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: September 22, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;income;taxes
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: Williams said that if people feel there is something  with a system that allows some people to pay no income taxes, they should work to "fix the system, don’t complain about people doing perfectly legal things." Our rating Baldwin said 7,000 millionaires "gamed the system to pay no income taxes." But her figure is high and she provides no  that millionaires "gamed the system." What’s clear is they worked within the system, however flawed it may or may not be. We rate Baldwin’s statement .