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Statement: The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.
Speaker: federal transit administration
About the speaker: The Federal Transit Administration is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: In fact, it will take an estimated 467 jobs to construct the line, plus 23 jobs that last 20 years or longer to run the streetcar. Experts think the remaining 4,600 jobs will be for those who produce materials needed to build the line or products workers purchase with their earnings, as well as employees of new businesses the streetcar brings to surrounding neighborhoods. This means that when the Federal Transit Administration announced the streetcar project would "create an estimated 930 jobs during construction," totaling more than 5,600 over the next 20 years, it gave a misleadingly high impression of the actual positions needed to construct and run it. If public officials keep exaggerating the number of jobs created by this project, PoiltiFact Georgia will keep turning up the heat. .
Statement: Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion;guns
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: Murphy said, "90 percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales." Every national poll we could find that was conducted over the past year supports this statistic. We rate Murphy’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a9c70aeb-a752-48fa-94a9-893e77b835bb
Statement: Fauci's emails leaked.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 2, 2021
Topics: corrections and updates;public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A leak happens when someone who has worked in government, such as an employee or contractor, shares secret information with the public . Whether a leak is illegal depends on the information that’s leaked. It’s a crime, for example, to leak national defense secrets to help another country. Well-known examples of actual leaks : the documents published by Wikileaks that were leaked by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, and 1.5 million documents that were leaked to journalists by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.     We rate claims that Fauci’s emails leaked .
Statement: Joe Biden's spending "has sent prices skyrocketing.
Speaker: jane timken
About the speaker: Jane Timken served as the chair of the Ohio Republican party until 2021. She is running for the U.S. Senate.
Date: April 13, 2022
Location: ohio
Topics: corrections and updates;economy;food;gas prices;stimulus;coronavirus;ukraine
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Timken said Biden's spending "has sent prices skyrocketing." The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act added about $1.9 trillion to the economy, and economists across the political spectrum say that it spurred inflation. They differ on the precise scale of its impact, with estimates ranging from two to four additional points out of the current inflation rate of about 8.5%. However, none of the experts we reached, liberal and conservative, said Biden’s actions were responsible for all of the inflation. Past government spending, COVID’s disruptions to labor markets, energy prices and supply-chains also played significant roles. Most recently, the war in Ukraine has made a challenging situation worse. We rate this  . CORRECTION  (April 25, 2022):  This fact-check was corrected to say the March 2021 Democratic bill included $1,400 payments to about 85% of Americans.
Statement: A video clip shows a failed attempt by China to launch airstrikes near Taiwan.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 27, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video showed a military-type aircraft in flight, sometimes firing missiles, while artillery was fired at it from the ground. The caption in the video title read, "See how the planes crashed again when China failed to launch air strikes near Taiwan #2."  The video was footage from a live broadcast of a video game and did not show actual footage of airstrikes. The title of the video was changed as we started fact-checking it, but not before many of the thousands of people who viewed the footage commented as though they believed it to be real. We rate that  !
Statement: Says NC Senate leader "expressed disdain" for the NC House budget vote on Sept. 11.
Speaker: deb butler
About the speaker: NC Rep. Deb Butler represents Brunswick and New Hanover counties in District 18.
Date: January 5, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: state budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Butler said Berger "expressed disdain" for how fellow Republicans in the NC House voted to override Cooper’s budget veto. She presented no  for her  and PolitiFact could find no  of Berger making any overtly negative comments about the House vote. We rate her  .
Statement: In Connecticut and New York, students at Achievement First schools consistently outperform city and statewide averages.
Speaker: angel taveras
About the speaker: Angel Taveras served a four-year term as the mayor of Providence, R.I. beginning in Jan. 3, 2011, the first Dominican-American to be elected mayor in the state. In 2014 he lost the Democratic primary when he ran for governor. Taveras, a lawyer and former Housing Court judge, replaced David N. Cicilline, who was elected to Congress in Rhode Island's 1st District. He is a graduate of  Harvard University and Georgetown Law School.
Date: January 8, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: city government;education
Context: a newspaper commentary
Fact-check justification: Achievement First schools do outperform city and state averages for math in Connecticut and New York, but the results aren’t as definitive for other subjects. To quantify this, we added up the number of classes that were tested in the two states in 2010 and 2011 and totaled the number of times the class results in different subject areas could be compared with either state or city averages. Here’s what we found: In total, for all grades and all subjects in the two states, Achievement First outperformed state or city averages 66 percent of the time. (If the New York district averages provided by Taveras’ office were substituted for city averages, this number would have risen to 70 percent.) Generally, combining all grades and all subjects, Achievement First schools performed better than their home cities, scoring better 83 percent of the time. Compared with state averages, however, they scored better only 50 percent of the time. Achievement First schools also did better on math, scoring higher than state or city averages 87 percent of the time. But in other subject areas -- science, reading and writing -- they had higher averages only 54 percent of the time. Taveras said that Achievement First schools in Connecticut and New York "consistently outperform city and statewide averages." That’s  for math but it’s not  for other subjects. It’s  for city averages but not for statewide averages. In other words, the mayor overstated the case for the charter school operator. We rule the  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Meth production in MO has cratered over last decade. MO Hwy Patrol reported 1,326 meth lab seizures in 2006, only 50 in 2018.
Speaker: josh hawley
About the speaker: Josh Hawley took office as U.S. Senator from Missouri in 2019. Hawley previously served as Missouri’s Attorney General. 
Date: September 10, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: drugs
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Hawley tweeted, "Meth production in MO has cratered over last decade. MO Hwy Patrol reported 1,326 meth lab seizures in 2006, only 50 in 2018." The numbers are correct for methamphetamine equipment seizures, laboratories and dumpsites, according to state and federal reports. So we rate this  .
Statement: Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an 'endowment' that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.
Speaker: charlie kirk
About the speaker: Charlie Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group that advocates for limited government and free markets.
Date: August 24, 2022
Topics: education;taxes
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: Kirk tweeted, "Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘Endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion." Kirk was in the ballpark about the size of these endowments, though his numbers might be slightly outdated; the most recent numbers show they’re even bigger. But calling such an endowment a "hedge fund" is a misnomer. Endowment funds are often partially invested in hedge funds to maximize returns, but they are not hedge funds themselves. His  that these large endowments are entirely untaxed is : Institutions like those he cited in the tweet have been paying a modest but real 1.4% excise tax on their investment returns since a 2017 change in tax law.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says President Obama's "grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth.
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: April 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: obama birth certificate
Context: a "Today Show" interview
Fact-check justification: Anyone who listens to the tape of the phone conversation with Sarah Obama can hear how tightly you need to edit this interview to present it as  of a presidential cover-up. We rule Trump's  that Obama's grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya . Addendum: While researching this story, we sent an e-mail seeking comment from Bishop Ron McRae, who conducted the trans-Atlantic interview with Sarah Obama. We received this letter from McRae after our story published. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/96d0c18c-2c04-40d8-83c6-54cfbbfbc004
Statement: Says Gov. Tony Evers "wanted to increase your taxes by $1 billion just for heating your homes. Instead, Republicans cut your taxes by more than $2 billion.
Speaker: john macco
About the speaker: Macco was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and graduated from Green Bay Southwest High School. He helped found and served as president of Macco's Floor Cover Centers, a retail and commercial flooring company with six locations in Wisconsin. Subsequently, he founded and served as president of Macco Financial Group, a financial advisory firm serving 15 states.
On November 4, 2014, Macco was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, defeating Democratic challenger Dan Robinson. Macco was reelected in the 2016 election. He retained his seat in the 2018 and 2020 elections. 
Date: April 18, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;housing;taxes
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Our ruling  Macco claimed that Evers wanted to increase Wisconsinites’ taxes by $1 billion "just for heating your homes," but instead, Republicans delivered a more than $2 billion tax cut.   The general thrust of the  is accurate, and similar to claims PolitiFact Wisconsin has rated in the past.   But his comment about heating homes doesn’t fit.   Our definition for  is a statement that is "partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: Under my platform, "I will make no changes to the current (Medicare) system for current retirees and anyone approaching retirement.
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: October 14, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare;retirement
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Cotton said that under his platform, he "will make no changes to the current (Medicare) system for current retirees and anyone approaching retirement." Cotton has consistently supported repeal of Obamacare, and while he has sometimes noted that something needs to be enacted to "replace" the law, we couldn’t find any examples in which he specifically pledged to protect the Medicare policies that would be eliminated if the law was repealed, such as the closing of the doughnut hole and free preventive health-care services. We rate his  .
Statement: NASA's T-minus launch countdown is a mocking reference to Satan.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 3, 2023
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The L-Time continues to advance during pauses in the countdown process. However, in 2006, Mike Leinbach, the final space shuttle program launch director at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center, said the "T" in "T Minus" stands for "test" because it’s not always related to time. It is also described as a "sequence of events that are built into the launch countdown." Whether it means "time" or "test," it does not refer to Satan. We rate this  !
Statement: Says U.S. Senate hopeful Tammy Baldwin voted for a $1 trillion stimulus bill that included a wasteful "$800,000 to replace light bulbs.
Speaker: crossroads gps
About the speaker: Crossroads GPS is a conservative advocacy group founded by prominent Republicans, including former White House political adviser Karl Rove.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: energy;federal budget;stimulus
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Crossroads GPS charges that Baldwin voted for wasteful spending through a "$1 trillion stimulus" plan, specifically citing "$800,000 to replace light bulbs." On both counts, the numbers are too high. While only one job was created to complete the project, city officials say it will save city taxpayers money every year and a growing local company got a big chunk of the contract to make the lights. They are in the midst of a hiring effort and have won stimulus-funded work all over the country. There’s an element of  in that federal stimulus money went to buy light bulbs, but overall we rate the  .
Statement: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "slashed" pensions and benefits for public employees.
Speaker: mike tate
About the speaker: Mike Tate is chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. He previously worked for Jim Doyle, the former Wisconsin governor, a public employee union and a voter mobilization organization. 
Date: November 15, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;state budget;unions;workers
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: They are paying more for their health insurance and getting less, given that the state is paying only 90 percent of the cost of many services rather than 100 percent. Our conclusion Tate said Walker "slashed" the pensions and benefits of state and local government employees. While the two benefits themselves are not being "slashed," the reductions along with the higher amounts the employees must pay for their benefits are significant. The PolitiFact definition for  is "The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That’s what we rate Tate’s statement.
Statement: News outlets reported that the Nashville bomber died of COVID-19.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 29, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Warner died in the blast , according to authorities. Breaking news meme generators are frequently used online to create fabricated headlines and chyrons such as this one. The Genesius Times describes itself as the "most reliable source of  news on the planet" and that it strives "to provide the most up-to-date, accurate  news on the Internet," the website says.    This screengrab is being shared on social media without that context. We rate this post !
Statement: In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy.
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: December 17, 2014
Location: national
Topics: human rights;foreign policy
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Rubio said that in the U.S.-Cuba negotiations, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy." He’s largely correct. Cuba did promise to release 53 political prisoners, take steps to open up the Internet and allow greater scrutiny by international organizations. But the secret talks led to no breakthroughs in structural reform to a political system dominated for more than half a century by the Castro brothers. Rather than producing pro-democratic results now, the agreement seeks to create the conditions for results later. Rubio's statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton "said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not true.
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: July 19, 2016
Location: national
Topics: history;foreign policy;technology;transparency
Context: a speech at the Republican convention
Fact-check justification: Christie told the convention that Clinton "said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not ." The FBI did indeed discover that work-related emails had been deleted by Clinton's lawyers despite her insistence, still posted on her website, that she included all emails "that were even potentially work-related." We rate Christie's statements as .
Statement: According to the Tax Foundation, the top 10 percent of earners already pay almost 80 percent of all taxes.
Speaker: maria bartiromo
About the speaker: Maria Bartiromo is host of CNBC's On the Money with Maria Baritromo and a co-host of Closing Bell. She previously worked for CNN.
Date: January 22, 2019
Topics: taxes;punditfact
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Bartiromo said, "According to the Tax Foundation, the top 10 percent of earners already pay almost 80 percent of all taxes." The latest federal data shows the top 10 percent of earners paid around 55 percent of all federal taxes. Her point that the wealthy pay a lot of taxes was right, but her number was significantly off. We rate this .
Statement: The CBO now says the president's health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021.
Speaker: gretchen carlson
About the speaker: Gretchen Carlson is a co-anchor of the Fox News Channel morning show Fox & Friends.
Date: February 4, 2014
Topics: economy;health care;jobs;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of Fox News' "The Real Story"
Fact-check justification: Carlson said that the CBO predicts that Obamacare will cut the number of full-time jobs by 2.3 million. The word "cut" sends the message that jobs are being taken away, but that's not the case. On top of that, the statement confuses the number of jobs with the number of workers, and more specifically, the number of hours worked. The CBO said the health care law will give more people an incentive to reduce their hours; some will limit their hours and some will stop working altogether by their own choice. The law would not push up unemployment. It can be easy to miss the distinction between jobs and workers, but the statement remains flawed. We rate the  .
Statement: In every state, women are paid less than men.
Speaker: national women's law center
About the speaker: National Women's Law Center
Date: September 21, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: income;women;workers
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: Using BLS data , women are paid 86 percent of the median hourly wages of men. So, does the NWLC’s  hold up? Based on Census Bureau data, it does appear that women are paid less than men in every state and Washington, D.C. In considering other data and influences, the wage disparity amount, specifically the national wage gap, is smaller, but still exists.    We rate it .
Statement: Central Park hospital tents housed thousands of abused children released from underground captivity.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 3, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A post claims, "Thousands of babies and children are being brought up out of underground tunnels in New York's Central Park by military personal (sic), during the night and placed in tents brought in by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse."  The Central Park hospital treated coronavirus patients. There is no  to support the  that it housed abused children released from captivity. It appears the  originated with the QAnon conspiracy group. Samaritan’s Purse said the claims are . We rate this  .
Statement: Says "80 percent of the tax breaks in" President Donald Trump's tax-cut "proposal go to the top 1 percent, that is, people making more than $730,000 a year.
Speaker: lloyd doggett
About the speaker: Rep. Lloyd Doggett was initially elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: September 30, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: taxes
Context: House floor remarks
Fact-check justification: Doggett said "80 percent of the tax breaks in" President Trump’s frameworked tax-cut "proposal go to the top 1 percent, that is, people making more than $730,000 a year." The analysis Doggett referenced indeed indicates benefits will accrue to the very wealthy over time. Yet in the first year of changes, the top 1 percent are projected to draw a little over half the tax savings. The threshold of 80 percent going to the top 1 percent is projected for the tenth year. Also, Doggett’s stated figure for incomes is too low; it ties to the first year of implementation. We rate Doggett’s floor statement .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.