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Statement: We have one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country.
Speaker: john loughlin
About the speaker: John Loughlin is state representative from Tiverton who ran an unsuccessful 2010 campaign for Congress in Rhode Island's 1st District. He owns a television, radio and film production company and served 26 years in the military, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve in 2006. He is married with two daughters.
Date: June 7, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: state budget;states;taxes
Context: an appearance on WPRO
Fact-check justification: John Loughlin said Rhode Island has "one of the most expensive General Assemblies, per capita, in the entire country." The National Conference of State Legislatures has consistently ranked Rhode Island as second or third in the United States. The amount paid to run the legislature -- more than $27 million in the 2011 fiscal year -- translates to $26.00 per resident. Even if you remove more than $7 million in expenses that, according to House Speaker Gordon Fox's office, aren't usually in a legislative budget, Rhode Island's ranking only drops to about fifth. Because that still makes Rhode Island's legislative budget "one of the most expensive," we rate Loughlin's statement as  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says the United Nations plans to "implant everyone with a biometric ID.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: February 20, 2020
Topics: fake news;privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: Since then, biometric technology has been developed to help identify refugee populations (though there have been some concerns about the practice). But the  that the UN is planning to implant the world’s population with a microchip ID is far off. We found no mention of implanted microchips in the UN’s goals. Even if UN-backed biometric technology is aimed to expand beyond refugee and immigrant populations, this theory is based on speculation and overblows the facts. We rate it .
Statement: Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.
Speaker: josh shapiro
About the speaker: Current Montgomery County Commissioner running for Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
Date: August 11, 2016
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: drugs
Context: a platform on his campaign website
Fact-check justification: Attorney General candidate Josh Shapiro wrote in his campaign platform for fighting the opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania that "Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth." Data from The Department of Health, the Center for Disease Control and the several other independent reports shows that overdosing has surpassed car crashes and other accidental causes as the leading accidental cause of death in Pennsylvania. We rate the  .
Statement: In 2016, there were 5,570 people in Wisconsin "who committed crimes on probation and they were not revoked.
Speaker: leah vukmir
About the speaker: Republican Leah Vukmir was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in 2010, representing a suburban Milwaukee district. She served in the state Assembly from 2002 to 2008. She lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018.
Date: October 12, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Her  is partially on target, but goes too far. The 5,570 figure is a state Department of Corrections estimate, not an actual count. And, importantly, it is for the number of people charged with a crime, not convicted. We rate her statement . div class='artembed'>
Statement: Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 17, 2021
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates;economy;gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: The post said, "Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades." Prices for gasoline and for consumer products more generally are indeed spiking as a result of the post-pandemic economic recovery, but not at the historical levels cited in the post. While the April 2021 jobs report was disappointing compared to advance projections, it’s far from the worst ever. By one metric, the immigration  is plausible, though final numbers won’t be known until this fall. We rate the statement . RELATED : No, it isn’t clear that unemployment checks are the main reason jobs go unfilled CORRECTION,  May 27, 2021 : The text has been updated to correct the figure for jobs lost in April 2020, from 20,000 to 20 million. The 20 million figure only strengthens the argument that April 2021 didn’t see the "worst jobs report in 2 decades." The rating remains the same.
Statement: Says Freddie Mac, electric co-ops and credit unions are all "government sponsored" enterprises.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: December 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: financial regulation;new hampshire 2012
Context: Sioux City, Iowa
Fact-check justification: The term, Government Sponsored Enterprise, applies only to a handful of financial entities listed in the federal budget. None of those characteristics apply to credit unions and electric cooperatives. Gingrich was paid by Freddie Mac to provide strategic advice, so he should be familiar with government sponsored entities and know what is and isn’t a GSE.   But Gingrich got it  twice during the debate in Iowa. We rule his  .
Statement: Most of the wildfires on the West Coast are "all being started by antifa.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 9, 2020
Location: california
Topics: fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a series of images
Fact-check justification: But extremist groups are not thought to be connected to them, and arson appears to be the exception — not the rule.   "I’ve talked to a lot of emergency, fire, and law enforcement personnel in Oregon over the past two days," wrote Lincoln Graves, a reporter and anchor for KATU in Portland, in a Sept. 9 Facebook post . "No one thinks Antifa is going deep into the forest to start fires on selectively windy days." The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is "a coup.
Speaker: rusty hicks
About the speaker: Rusty Hicks is chairman of the California Democratic Party.
Date: January 12, 2021
Location: california
Topics: elections;states
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: A coup is a violent overthrow of a government. A recall is a legally sanctioned effort to vote an elected official out of office midway through their term. It’s been part of California’s constitution for more than a century.   We rate Hicks’ statement .     – The statement is not accurate and makes a  .
Statement: Bill Gates tells G20 world leaders that 'death panels' will soon be required.
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: November 17, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Gates mentioned "death panels," in 2010 during a conversation about education and health care systems at the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival in Colorado. Gates was talking about weighing spending on education and health care when he said, "There’s also a lack of willingness to say is spending $10 million on that last month of life on that patient, would it be better to lay off those 10 teachers and make that up in medical costs? That is called the ‘death panel’ and you’re not supposed to have that discussion. "  He didn’t say anything else about death panels, least of all that they would "soon be required," as the post says.   We rate claims that Gates made such a statement at the recent G20 summit !
Statement: Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger.
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: August 18, 2010
Location: national
Topics: children;taxes
Context: Columbus, Ohio
Fact-check justification: And a 2009 amendment that would improve the child care credit authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., passed by unanimous consent, which means no Republican objected. Likewise, Sen. Charles Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has called for changes to ensure that small companies can take advantage of the child care credit. Obama said that Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger." It is  that the top Republican in the House dismissed the report of the White House Middle Class task force that proposed to double the credit, but the Obama administration has not produced any  of specific GOP opposition and we find plenty of other examples where Republicans have supported beefing up the credits. We find his  .
Statement: France "wouldn't buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power.
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: June 27, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: agriculture;energy;food;nuclear
Context: a White House briefing
Fact-check justification: Perry told reporters that France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power." Perry's main point holds up; France gets about three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear power. But his beef mention lacks clarification in that it was the European Union (not France alone) that banned only hormone-raised beef. Some beef continues to be imported to the EU. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done.
Speaker: joe lieberman
About the speaker: Joe Lieberman, a lawyer from Stamford, Conn., now in his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, is perhaps best known as the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000. He lost the Democratic primary for Senate prior to the 2006 election but retained his seat after running on his own party line and beating the anti-war Democratic candidate Ned Lamont. He now calls himself an independent but continues to caucus with the Democrats. He is a friend and supporter of Sen. John McCain, and was one of his surrogates in the 2008 presidential race.
Date: September 2, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: St. Paul, Minn
Fact-check justification: Another part of the measure was intended to stop the spread of conventional weapons, notably shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles that the legislation refers to as man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS. The bill's provisions were incorporated into a House bill that passed later that year and was signed into law in January 2007 (PL 109-472). These bills arguably meet the threshhold of significance, particularly the two measures with Lugar on important foreign policy issues. Since Obama is a Democrat, and Lugar and Coburn are Republicans, that seems to qualify as reaching across party lines. We find Lieberman's  .
Statement: After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: January 30, 2018
Location: national
Topics: economy;workers
Context: his State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages." By the most common measure, wages did go up for the first three quarters of Trump’s presidency, but they fell in the fourth, wiping out all the gains on his watch and then some. And even if you ignore this fourth quarter figure as a blip, his assertion ignores that wages — by two different measurements — began their climb during the final years of Obama’s presidency. We rate his statement .
Statement: The Dolphins stadium renovation will "create more than 4,000 new local jobs.
Speaker: friends of miami first
About the speaker: Friends of Miami First is a political action commission funded by t he Miami Dolphins and the South Florida Stadium LLC, team owner Stephen Ross' company which owns the stadium.
Date: April 23, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: county budget;jobs;sports;state budget
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: The mailer distributed by Miami First said that the Dolphins stadium renovation will "create more than 4,000 new local jobs." The Dolphins based the number on a 2010 study of a $225 million project that concluded 3,740 jobs in Miami-Dade and Broward. They haven’t shown any study of the current project to support their  that it will create more than 4,000 local jobs. Instead, they tacked on an extra 260 jobs to the new $350 million project and say that’s conservative. The key omission here is that these are jobs associated with the 25-month stadium renovation project and include temporary positions. The Dolphins say that some jobs would continue, but they have provided no details as to how many of those 4,000 jobs would extend beyond the construction phase. To get those jobs, the team would receive $379 million from the state and county over about three decades, and eventually pay back about $159 million. As to whether the jobs will be local, the team has set a goal to hire the vast majority of the workers from Miami-Dade County but there is no financial penalty if they fail to do so. We rate this  .
Statement: You know what Truman said, 'You want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.'
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: March 14, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography;elections;ethics
Context: North Canton, Ohio
Fact-check justification: Kasich told an Ohio crowd, "You know what Truman said, ‘You want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.’ " Though that statement is often attributed to Truman, there’s no  Truman ever actually said that. We rate Kasich’s statement .
Statement: White House, CDC, WHO and vaccine makers don't require the COVID-19 vaccine for their workers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 19, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus;ask politifact
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A social media post claims the COVID-19 vaccine is not mandated for workers at the White House, the vaccine manufacturers and several health organizations. All but one of the organizations listed in the post have some form of COVID-19 vaccine requirement for their employees. In most cases, the mandates were announced before the post was published. We rate this  .
Statement: Revealed: UN plan to flood America with 600 million migrants.
Speaker:  infowars
About the speaker: Infowars is a conspiracy oriented website run by Alex Jones.
Date: July 24, 2018
Topics: immigration;fake news;punditfact
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Infowars did not respond to requests for comment. The UN document at the center of the Infowars post explores "replacement migration" but explicitly stops short of recommendation, much less implementation. The UN has no authority to compel anyone to immigrate. Further, the document that was "revealed" is nearly two decades old. We rate the headline .
Statement: The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is "the most overturned court in the country.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: February 9, 2017
Topics: supreme court;punditfact
Context: on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Hannity said the 9th Circuit is "the most overturned court in the country." While the 9th Circuit has a higher than average reversal rate among cases it sends to the Supreme Court, it has not had the highest rate since at least 2004 (the oldest data point we could find). Even if it did, experts told us that the massive size of the 9th Circuit compared to the handful of cases it sends to the Supreme Court every year make reversal rates an imperfect measure of the quality of the 9th Circuit’s decisions. More broadly, experts say this statistic is a poor way of comparing courts. We rate Hannity’s  .
Statement: The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years.
Speaker: kendrick meek
About the speaker: Kendrick Meek is a former U.S. Representative for Congressional District 17 in Miami, serving from 2003 to 2011. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: October 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: afghanistan;terrorism
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Meek clearly made a mid-debate stumble. He could have just stopped after saying that "the Taliban has been there for years and years" rather than adding "I mean, hundreds of thousands of years." But he made the comment on national TV, portrayed himself as the only one of the three who had been to Afghanistan (he notes his repeated trips to combat zones on his website ) and claimed to be the only one talking about military families. So we felt his  was fair game for a fact check.  Meek's campaign does get credit for quickly acknowledging the error, but we rate this  .
Statement: After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption.
Speaker: john hickenlooper
About the speaker: John Hickenlooper is a former governor of Colorado. Hickenlooper served as a governor from 2011 to 2019. From 2003 until 2011, he was mayor of Denver. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in geology from Wesleyan University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: March 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: marijuana
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Hickenlooper said that after legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption." He has a point that legalization didn’t produce a rapid, sudden increase in marijuana use. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a continued increase. In Colorado, reported marijuana use climbed, slowly and steadily, for adults between 2008 and 2017. The one exception was teenagers, for whom usage rates largely remained steady. We rate the statement .
Statement: The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: September 26, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: Oxford, Miss
Fact-check justification: A 2004 study said the difference was 2.3 inches for young men and 1.6 inches for young women.   The studies blame malnutrition in North Korea for the height difference. So McCain is on solid ground with his . The studies vary, but his 3-inch  is a reasonable approximation of the various studies and his underlying point is correct. We find his  to the .
Statement: Tafari Campbell, the Obamas' personal chef who drowned, tweeted that he had "information that will lead to the arrest of Barack Obama.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 25, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The name and username in the fabricated tweet also misspells Campbell’s last name. The  Social user who originally shared the  said in response to comments on the post that "this is a meme lol." Massachusetts State and Edgartown police are investigating the incident. The Obamas were not at their Martha’s Vineyard home when the accident occurred, police said. We rate the  that Campbell wrote he had "information that will lead to the arrest of Barack Obama" !
Statement: In Ohio, "each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk.
Speaker: joyce beatty
About the speaker: Democrat Joyce Beatty was elected in 2012 to Ohio's 3rd District, a new congressional district in the Columbus area. She formerly was a state lawmaker.
Date: May 25, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: children;trade
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Beatty said, "Each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk." The underlying study behind this widely distributed state talking point lacks scientific footing. Law enforcement totals of cases involving sex trafficking victims did not approach anywhere close to 1,000 child victims. It’s impossible to quantify how many go undiscovered. But artificially inflating that estimate isn’t necessary. We rate this statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a0e109ab-8e1f-4e19-a85c-d5bdbfbee89f