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Statement: Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 6, 2019
Topics: corporations;labor;workers;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Viral social media posts  that Nike’s factory employees work 70 to 80 hours a week and get paid 20 cents an hour. The numbers in the post are outdated, but not entirely far off. Today, Nike pays workers more than 20 cents an hour and employees work, on average, a little less than 70 to 80 hours per week. However, workers rights experts tell us the pay from Nike and other major brands is still below a living wage and average weekly hours are routinely well above standard workweeks. We rate this .
Statement: Black business ownership jumped 400% in one year.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: August 20, 2018
Topics: small business;punditfact
Fact-check justification: The Annual Business Survey data about Business Owner Characteristics for 2017 is not yet available, and most recent census data related to minority-owned businesses is from 2016. Robert Fairlie, an economics professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, studies entrepreneurship and authored a book about its relationship with race in the United States. Fairlie said there was no indication that African-American businesses had seen significant growth in the past year. "That would be great if there was a 400 percent increase given that African-American rates are so low, but everything that I have seen from Census and BLS data does not show that kind of growth," Fairlie said. Because of the small sample size and lack of corroborating data, we rate this  .
Statement: In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: February 16, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: crime
Context: a committee meeting
Fact-check justification: Cruz said in a Feb. 16 Foreign Relations committee meeting while also noting the deaths of politicians, "In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world." Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists backed this . We rate this as .
Statement: The health care law "is accelerating our country toward bankruptcy.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: January 25, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care
Context: the GOP response to the State of the Union
Fact-check justification: The fate of those cuts may largely determine whether the new health care law ends up in the red or black. For now, though, those cuts are law. Congress would have to act to reduce or eliminate them. So Ryan is overplaying his hand when he claims the law is "accelerating our country toward bankruptcy." We rate his  .
Statement: Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation.
Speaker: fresh start pa
About the speaker: Fresh Start PA is a political action committee in Pennsylvania that supports Democratic candidates.
 
Date: July 15, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;states
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Fresh Start PA said that under Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation." We looked at the most current numbers and found the state is now 47th rather than 49th -- but even at 47th, Pennsylvania is clearly among the weakest states in job creation since the start of 2011. It’s important to note that Corbett, like all governors, has a limited influence on the economic performance of his state. Still, we rate the  .
Statement: Joe Biden "has been secretly flying illegal immigrants into communities across the country in the middle of the night.
Speaker: tyler kistner
About the speaker: Republican Tyler Kistner, an ex-Marine, ran in 2020 and is running in 2022 for the 2nd District U.S. House of Representatives seat in Minnesota, which represents part of the southeast part of the state.
Date: February 22, 2022
Topics: immigration;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Kistner said Biden "has been secretly flying illegal immigrants into communities across the country in the middle of the night." The ad implies that it is a new phenomenon for the federal government to transport immigrants around the country. That’s not .  The federal government flies adult detainees in its custody from one facility to another, or from one U.S. city to another during deportation proceedings. The U.S. government in some cases also flies unaccompanied children who are being released from its custody to a family member or sponsor. Some of these flights may happen at night, but they are not covert operations. The same types of routine flights were done by the Trump administration. The ad contains only an element of . We rate it . RELATED: Fact-checking Ron DeSantis’  that a U.S. process doesn't vet immigrants
Statement: Says in the 2016 presidential election, "I won that one by 42 points -- 42 points -- West Virginia.
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 13, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: candidate biography;elections
Context: Monaca, Pa
Fact-check justification: Trump said that in the 2016 presidential election in West Virginia, he won by 42 points. He’s correct; in fact, it was his second-widest margin in any state, trailing only Wyoming. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says constitutional amendment would "help to stop unfair, double taxation on real estate.
Speaker: yes on 79 
About the speaker: The Oregon campaign, backed in large part by the Oregon Association of Realtors, behind Ballot Measure 79. The group was known as Protect Oregon Homes when lobbying for a constitutional ban on real estate transfer taxes. The measure is on the November 2012 ballot.
Date: December 28, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: an ad and on their website
Fact-check justification: The Protect Oregon Homes website says signing the petition will "help to stop unfair, double taxation on real estate" when, in fact, there is only one such tax in Oregon and the repeal they’re floating would do nothing to end it. What’s more, a repeal of the current pre-emption, while certainly possible, is not something that the Legislature appears to be actively considering. Protect Oregon Homes acknowledges some of these points on their website, which tempers our ruling somewhat, but the general feeling you get from the group is that there’s a tax on the books -- or there will be soon -- and only a constitutional amendment will stop it. In fact, there is no double tax to stop. We give the group a  for this  -- it’s partially accurate but leaves out some essential context.
Statement: Since the Sandy Hook tragedy, more than seven children PER DAY have died from gun violence.
Speaker: jackie speier
About the speaker: Rep. Jackie Speier, D–Calif., represents the state's 14th District, which includes most of San Mateo County and part of San Francisco.
Date: December 14, 2016
Location: california
Topics: children;crime;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: California Congresswoman Jackie Speier recently claimed: "Since the Sandy Hook tragedy, more than seven children PER DAY have died from gun violence." Speier’s  is backed up by the CDC’s fatal injury report data, which shows an average of 7.15 young people per day, aged 0 to 19, died in connection with firearms between 2013 and 2015. It’s important to note these include all types of gun deaths: accidents, homicides and suicides. All gun deaths are violent, but Speier’s statement could be interpreted as only including homicides or accidents. Finally, Speier’s  might also lead some to think she’s talking about young school aged children, given that she invokes an elementary school shooting. The data show teenagers and young adults make up the vast majority of deaths due to guns in America, while elementary aged children account for a small fraction. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the source Speier relied on, offers a more complete look at this statistic on its website. It notes that children "and teens" are included in the seven deaths per day. Speier’s statement is on the right track. But it could have used some clarifications.  We rate it .   – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/423277eb-4cab-4fc1-8ab5-357f808c343d
Statement: We're taxing our small businesses now at rates higher than corporations.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: January 27, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;small business;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: That will be  in some cases, applying to a not-insubstantial amount of business profits. But a credible study suggests that many, or even most, small-businesses have income that the new top tax rate won’t touch. And the system allows them to file under the corporate tax system if they so desire. Ryan’s statement has an element of  but ignores facts that would leave a different impression. That’s our definition of .
Statement: Says Mark Warner told PolitiFact National's "Lie of the Year" in 2013.
Speaker: ed gillespie
About the speaker: Ed Gillespie is a Republican strategist who currently runs the firm Ed Gillespie Strategies. He served as counselor to former President George W. Bush. Gillespie has announced he will run for Virginia governor in 2017. He narrowly lost a 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Mark Warner.
Date: September 9, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;message machine 2014
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Gillespie’s ad indicates PolitiFact National branded Warner with the "Lie of the Year" in 2013 for promising four years earlier that he wouldn’t vote for health care reforms that took away insurance plans people like. PolitiFact National never mentioned Warner in handing out the award. In articles and videos, our colleagues focused the award on Obama’s insistence over the years that under the ACA, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." The statements and the circumstances behind them are not clones. The president had far greater power in shaping the law that bears his name than the senator. Warner didn’t repeat his pledge after he voted for the ACA in 2009. Obama continued to make his vow long after he added regulations to the law in mid-2010 that guaranteed the ACA would end some pre-existing insurance plans.   The clear implication of Gillespie’s ad -- that PolitiFact cited Warner for telling the Lie of the Year -- is simply .
Statement: In North Carolina, "now we're near the national average" for unemployment.
Speaker: thom tillis
About the speaker: Thom Tillis is a Republican who serves as U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Date: October 7, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;states;workers
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Tillis said that in North Carolina, "now we're near the national average" for unemployment. He has a point that the state has dropped its unemployment rate significantly in the past few years, but he  about how close the state is to the national average. In reality, North Carolina’s unemployment rate ranks it in the lowest one-quarter of states. We rate the  .
Statement: Hunter Biden was chairman of the World Food Program, which just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Eric Trump, Donald J Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump are banned from ever operating a charity again because they stole donations to children with cancer.
Speaker: left action
About the speaker: Left Action is a popular Facebook page that's part of a series of online liberal advocacy properties called the Left Action Network.
Date: October 20, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Eric Trump resigned from the foundation in December 2016. That scrutiny was separate from the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against Donald J. Trump Foundation, which agreed to dissolve in 2018. And Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump can still operate charities under the terms of the settlement. The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Ohio has "created 45,000 new manufacturing jobs since 2010. And that's due in large part to the fact that the auto rescue has helped Ohio.
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: August 5, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a "Face the Nation" interview
Fact-check justification: Strickland is right on the big number. Giving major credit to the auto industry is a harder case to make. Based on the information gathered by the BLS, the automobile sector accounted for just one-eighth of the new manufacturing jobs. There are good reasons to believe that the impact of the auto industry, both within and outside of Ohio, generated a larger impact on manufacturing jobs, but it is difficult to quantify. We rate the statement .
Statement: Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.
Speaker: republican national committee
About the speaker: The Republican National Committee is the national arm of the Republican Party.
Date: July 22, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Clinton says the U.S. needs a plan for leaving Iraq, but she has thus far avoided setting a deadline. In her statements on Iraq, Clinton has consistently said the U.S. commitment of troops in Iraq can be neither open-ended nor set to a rigid deadline. Se also has advocated a well-planned exit from Iraq.
Statement: Old photo shows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his mother wearing KKK garb.
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: June 25, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: There is no  the image shows Georgia’s current governor, or his mother.   The original photograph appears on Getty Images with a caption that notes that the identities of the woman and child are unknown. Getty notes that the image was created on April 27, 1956. Brian Kemp wasn’t born until Nov. 2, 1963, so it’s not possible that he could be the boy pictured. We rate this miscaptioned photo !
Statement: Gina Haspel, CIA head is dead!
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: November 30, 2020
Topics: elections;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: The article misspells Haspel’s name several times.    Shortly after the  began to circulate, social media users began to also speculate Haspel had actually been killed in the raid, citing an anonymous "DC Insider." None of the users who helped push the story have cited any credible sources or provided a shred of proof to back up their assertions. The claims about Haspel are  and . We rate it !
Statement: Right now, China controls 80% of all ingredients and raw materials going into our generic prescription drugs.
Speaker: vicky hartzler
About the speaker: Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., represents Missouri's fourth district. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994.
Date: May 7, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: health care;foreign policy
Context: a letter to the president
Fact-check justification: Hartzler said, "Right now, China controls 80% of all ingredients and raw materials going into our generic prescription drug." While a large part may come from China, putting it all at 80% does not add up. The 2019 Commission Report and the testimony say 80% of active ingredients are from overseas. The government reports credit the figure for all imports of raw materials, and the GAO says active ingredients are made in more than 150 countries. We rate this statement as .
Statement: Says Ovide Lamontagne wants to eliminate kindergarten.
Speaker: new hampshire democratic party
About the speaker: The New Hampshire Democratic Party is the Granite State's branch of the Democratic National Committee.
Date: October 18, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: education
Context: a campaign mailer to New Hampshire residents
Fact-check justification: A dramatized New Hampshire Democratic Party flyer tries to make Lamontagne out as a kindergarten abolisher. Lamontagne acknowledges he opposed state-mandated public kindergarten -- and still doesn’t agree with it. But he has no plans to repeal it, which is a far cry from eliminating an entire school grade from public schools. To say repealing the law would "eliminate kindergarten" and put a generation of New Hampshire students "one year behind" is over the top. But doing so would likely impact the families who can’t afford to send their children to private or out-of-district schools for kindergarten. We rate the statement .
Statement: Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: November 25, 2013
Topics: history;crime;punditfact
Context: comments on his blog
Fact-check justification: West said black people kill more blacks in six months than the KKK did in 86 years. Based on the  West provided, the  essentially boils down to a comparison between the number of black-on-black homicides and the number of lynchings from 1882-1968. Using 2012 FBI data and information from the Tuskegee Institute -- neither of which is perfect -- West is somewhat off in his numbers. There were approximately 2,936 black-on-black homicides in six months of 2012 and 3,446 black lynchings from 1882-1896. But West also is  to ascribe the historical killing of blacks to the Ku Klux Klan, experts told us. There is no clear tally of Klan murders. We rate the  .
Statement: The Department of Energy's "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: October 4, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: energy
Context: his book, "This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House"
Fact-check justification: All in all, Cain has it  on solar and wind energy. The federal government’s "Billion Ton Study" did not say that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs." Scientists think solar and wind alone can top 5 percent of the nation’s total needs with policy and infrastructure changes. They could even power the entire nation if the U.S. commits to an energy overhaul, though it would take a lot of resources, time, political will, and possibly some new technologies to get this done. Cain earns a .
Statement: I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: January 20, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: Burlington, Iowa
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS." While Clinton’s plan is more detailed, by some measurements, than those of other candidates, at least seven other candidates in both parties have released multi-point plans for taking on ISIS. Some plans -- such as those from Bush and Rubio -- approach Clinton’s in either length or degree of detail. In fact, there’s a significant degree of overlap between the agenda items in Clinton’s plan and in plans released by other candidates. We don’t see strong  for Clinton’s  that she’s the only member of the 2016 field with a "specific plan." We rate the  .
Statement: The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: May 15, 2021
Location: arizona
Topics: elections
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Trump claimed: "The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" His statement came three days after the Twitter account for an ongoing audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County claimed that the county "deleted a directory full of election databases." A few days later, the head of one of the firms helping do the audit said he in fact was able to access the data.  There is no  any election database was deleted illegally. We rate Trump’s  .