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Statement: Under President Barack Obama's leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs.
Speaker: bob king
About the speaker: Bob King is the president of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the UAW. 
Date: September 5, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs
Context: Charlotte, N.C
Fact-check justification: The data will change once new jobs figures are released on Sept. 7, 2012. But at the time King made the statement, his data was correct. We rate his statement .
Statement: Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include … $250,000 to provide digital television to the state's inmate population.
Speaker: ocean state policy research institute
About the speaker: The Ocean State Policy Research Institute was a non-profit, conservative organization that focuses on "crafting sound public policy based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and traditional American values." It existed from July 2007 to July 2011. 
Date: June 29, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: stimulus
Context: report
Fact-check justification: ( Download the report, go to page 32 and let us know the ones you’re interested in.) The Piglet Book authors got a bit lucky on this one. The fact that the ACI completed the project without stimulus funding saved their bacon from the flames of a  ruling. We rate this one  (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Empty store shelves at a Walmart in South Carolina were because of a meat shortage.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 29, 2022
Location: national
Topics: food
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It’s  that the shelves were empty, but it’s not because there was a delivery shortage.   A Walmart spokesperson told PolitiFact food was removed from the shelves because of a mechanical failure with the coolers but that the staff was able to correct the problem without losing any of the product. The U.S. has dealt with supply chain issues over the past two years parly because of pandemic-era market corrections and  the war in Ukraine, but some social media posts have exaggerated the effects, sometimes falsely suggesting that they are  of a bigger conspiracy . Although this post doesn’t go that far, the  that these empty store shelves showed a meat shortage at a Walmart in Columbia, South Carolina, is not accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006.
Speaker: jake tapper
About the speaker: Jake Tapper is host of CNN's The Lead.
Date: July 29, 2014
Topics: children;israel;foreign policy;military;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: Tapper, while grilling an Israeli spokesman, said, "Israel has, in the last three weeks, killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006." His figure for Palestinian child deaths comes from the United Nations. According to humanitarian workers on the ground, more than 200 Palestinian children have died in the last three weeks from the Israel-Hamas conflict, though it’s not clear in every case whether the Israeli bullets and bombs are directly responsible. That is indeed more than the number of Israeli soldiers killed since 2006 while engaged in military operations, our review found. Tapper’s numbers are accurate, but there remains some question about who bears responsibility for the deaths of every Palestinian child. As such, we rate this  .
Statement: Says gas costs $4.50 a gallon.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: March 8, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: energy;gas prices
Context: an email blast
Fact-check justification: So, $4.50 a gallon? Sure, you can find that price if you look hard enough -- especially if you’re driving California. But Dewhurst’s comment implies that $4.50 gas is commonplace. That’s an exaggeration. Average gas prices were 15 to 20 percent lower in the week when Dewhurst blasted Obama, who also doesn’t control the price of gas. We rate this statement .
Statement: The passage of the teacher tenure bill in the Fla. Legislature was like the health care bill in Congress because one party jammed it through.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: April 15, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education;health care
Context: a press conference announcing veto of SB 6
Fact-check justification: Back to Crist's original statement. In vetoing SB 6, he said the process in the Legislature was similiar to the one Republicans criticized Democrats for using in Washington to pass the health care bill. In particular, Crist said both bills were sort of "jamming something down (people's) throat." He's right that neither the federal health care bill or SB 6 passed with a single vote from the party out of power. But turns out there actually was more debate in Washington about the health care bill, than there was in Tallahassee about SB 6. Congress and the president held more than 100 town halls to discuss health care with voters while Florida legislators had four public hearings. And while the White House says 170 GOP amendments were included in the final health care bill, albeit largely technical in nature, Republicans in the Florida House blocked every amendment offered by Democrats when considering SB 6. State GOP leaders also orchestrated a plan to avoid having to send the bill back to the Senate for a second vote or even conference over different bills. SB 6 meets our definition of jamming a bill through, which is good for Crist. What's bad for him, however, is that the debate over the federal health care bill was actually more collegial. We have to rate Crist's statement .
Statement: Sorry Dr Fauci and other fearmongers, new study shows vaccines and naturally acquired immunity DO effectively neutralize COVID variants.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: March 21, 2021
Topics: health check;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Paul is correct that the JAMA study showed vaccination or previous infection appeared, based on a small sample of people, to help neutralize the virus. However, he left out important details that make his position an oversimplification of a complicated issue. The study considered only one variant — the one that emerged in the U.K. — and did not include an analysis of other types now circulating, or the potential for additional variants that could emerge. Also, the type of antibody studied is just one factor in protecting against disease, and just what those levels of neutralizing antibodies  measured in a laboratory experiment may mean in the real world is not known. So, for those reasons, we rate the senator’s statement .
Statement: Only about 20%" of people who apply for asylum qualify for it.
Speaker: jeh johnson
About the speaker: Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017.
Date: November 27, 2022
Topics: immigration;border security
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Speaking about immigrants who arrive at the southwest border and apply for asylum, Johnson said, "only about 20%" qualify for it.   The approval rate is higher — about 30% since 2000, according to data tracked by Syracuse University. Of the 42,000 cases decided in 2022, immigration judges granted asylum in almost 39% of them. Johnson told PolitiFact that he misspoke.   We rate this  .
Statement: Scott Walker "had a 2.3 GPA when he was asked to leave Marquette University for cheating.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 11, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;education;elections
Context: a meme
Fact-check justification: Our rating An Internet meme says Walker "had a 2.3 GPA when he was asked to leave Marquette University for cheating." Walker left school as a senior for a job with the Red Cross, but has not released his transcripts, which has left some to question the move. There is no , however, to prove the grade point average, "was asked to leave" or the cheating parts of the . We rate it . More on Scott Walker For more on Scott Walker, check out the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker File .
Statement: Doctors say colon cancer is on the rise due to toxins absorbed while cooking food (in) the microwave.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 27, 2023
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said a rise in colon cancer is because of toxins absorbed when food is cooked in microwave ovens. The rate of colorectal cancer cases in the U.S. has steadily decreased over the past two decades, although it has risen in Americans younger than 50. It’s unclear what’s causing that increase, but experts say there’s no  linking it to microwave-cooked food. We rate this  .
Statement: Says under the Romney-Ryan budget ... "the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated.
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 21, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: education
Context: a campaign email to New Hampshire press Aug. 21
Fact-check justification: Romney’s campaign has said that the former Massachusetts governor will not renew the American Opportunity Tax Credit if he is elected in November. And because it’s slated to expire at the end of 2012, it would no longer be available to college students and their families if no action is taken to extend it, as Obama has done since it was enacted in 2009. But the AOTC is not the only tax deduction out there for students, as Obama’s ads may lead voters to believe. So while Romney would allow the deduction to end, it does not mean all college tax deductions would be lost. In fact, it would revert back to a previous program that has been in place since 1997. As a result, we rate Obama’s  .
Statement: Says Texas is "dead last in support for mental health.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: January 8, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care;public health;state budget
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: Davis said Texas is "dead last" in mental health spending. The Kaiser-posted figures do not take into account all mental health spending--for any state. But unless more comprehensive research surfaces, the figures appear to be the best way to compare relative spending. And in 2010, the latest year analyzed, Texas spent more in raw dollars on mental health services than 41 states. But in per-resident spending--a better metric for comparing states--Texas ranked second-to-last to Idaho after ranking last to all other states for several years. We rate the statement .
Statement: Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: October 11, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;new hampshire 2012;states
Context: Hanover, N.H
Fact-check justification: Romney said that "less than 1 percent" of Massachusetts kids are uninsured, when in fact the best available number is 3 percent. But that’s still the lowest in the nation. Meanwhile, he actually underestimated the number of uninsured children in Texas when he said there were a million. On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: Inflation has gone up every month of the Biden presidency and just hit another 40-year high.
Speaker: mike gallagher
About the speaker: Republican Mike Gallagher of Green Bay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2016. He is the senior global market strategist at Breakthrough Fuel, a Green Bay supply chain fuel management company. Gallagher previously served as a human intelligence and counterintelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a foreign policy aide to GOP Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign.  
Date: April 12, 2022
Location: national
Topics: economy;wisconsin
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: "  Looking at economic data, it’s  that the rate of inflation is the highest it’s been since the 1980s. And inflation has, indeed, been on the rise under Biden – though Gallagher glosses over a slight plateau in mid-2021.   What’s more, the increase – which, to be sure, has gotten much steeper – began before Biden was sworn in, under Trump. That leaves us with a  that is accurate, but needs clarification or additional information. That’s what we call .
Statement: We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard).
Speaker: carly fiorina
About the speaker: Carly Fiorina is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. She is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). She was defeated in her attempt as the Republican nominee to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.
Date: May 10, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;economy
Context: comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said that while she was CEO of HP, the size of the company "doubled." That's correct when discussing one specific aspect, revenues, but you could argue that's a bit of a red herring. The revenue growth was largely thanks to a controversial merger with Compaq and not organic. Moreover, the new revenue did not come with proportional increases to either profits or the number of HP jobs. Fiorina’s figures are accurate, but standing alone, they don’t tell the whole picture. We rate her  .
Statement: Says Scott Pruitt's security spending was "somewhat more" than his predecessor.
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, 2018
Location: national
Topics: environment;federal budget;homeland security
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump said Pruitt’s "security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor." "Somewhat more" is a significant understatement of the situation. By almost every measurement available, Pruitt more than doubles his immediate predecessor’s spending on security. The White House attributed the additional spending to unprecedented death threats. We were unable to obtain any details on the gravity of those threats. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says "most" NC legislators are in the "high risk age group" for coronavirus
Speaker: kelly alexander
About the speaker: Kelly Alexander Jr. is a funeral director who represents District 107 in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Date: March 11, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rep. Alexander said "most" North Carolina legislators are in the "highest risk age group" for coronavirus. The highest risk age group is generally people who are aged 60 and older. Alexander’s  is on-point: more than half of legislators are older than that. We rate his  .
Statement: Snitker has been virtually ignored by the major media.
Speaker: alexander snitker
About the speaker: Alexander Snitker is running as a Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate in 2010 for the State of Florida. He spent eight years in the Marines and currently works as a AXSA Document Solutions, Inc.
Date: March 29, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: elections
Context: a campaign press release
Fact-check justification: But when it comes to the Snitker for Senate campaign, he says, "I have not seen any news coverage at all. At all. Whatsoever." We find little reason to disagree. We have to rule Snitker's  .
Statement: As Hurricane Ian approached, President Joe Biden said, "a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 27, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts claimed that as Hurricane Ian approached, Biden said, "a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now."  Biden made those remarks in 2021 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, not in 2022 as Hurricane Ian was nearing landfall. And he recommended vaccination to prepare for evacuation or staying in a shelter during hurricanes, not as a means of protecting people against hurricanes.  We rate this  .
Statement: Video shows Neil deGrasse Tyson describing how NASA faked the moon landing.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 17, 2023
Topics: space;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram video
Fact-check justification: Despite decades of hoaxes that  otherwise, videos and other  prove that as of July 16, 1969, mankind has been to the moon. We rate the  that a video shows Tyson saying that NASA faked the moon landing . RELATED: Fifty years after Apollo 11, moon landing hoaxes still thrive online   RELATED: Aldrin didn’t say the moon landing was a hoax   RELATED: No, Wikileaks didn’t release  that the moon landing was faked
Statement: Before Act 10, the total cost of public sector employees' employment was 29 percent higher than that in the private sector. After the act, it's still 22 percent higher.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: June 6, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;state budget;unions
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: That underlines what we found: There are different ways to measure the same thing. Indeed, an academic came up with a far different pre-Act 10 starting point when he did his own study in 2011. There certainly appears to be an element of  in the study, but it’s not as definitive as Johnson presented it on the radio. And credible independent researchers have raised valid questions about the conclusion. We rate Johnson’s statement .
Statement: Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, "voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for…Viagra.
Speaker: alberta darling
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, served in the state Assembly from 1990 to 1992 and has served in the state Senate since 1992. She survived a recall election in August 2011 by defeating state Rep. Sandy Pasch (D-Whitefish Bay).
Date: July 29, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;unions
Context: a TV ad and campaign flier
Fact-check justification: In seeking to tap into anger in some quarters over the Viagra issue, Darling claims Pasch voted to allow it for school district employees. Darling cites Pasch’s support for collective bargaining. But there was no vote in Madison on the matter. The issue was resolved in Milwaukee when an arbitrator ruled in favor of the school district -- years before Pasch came to office. We rate the statement .
Statement: You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters.
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: October 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;religion;terrorism
Context: the second 2016 presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "you can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters." An East African affiliate of the al-Qaida terrorist group has used a video clip of Trump in one of its videos, telling "Muslims of the West" that they are not welcome in countries like the United States and urging them to join the terrorist group, according to multiple news reports. While it’s difficult to determine how effective the videos are, at least one has featured Trump’s words. We rate Clinton’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7013fbb5-91dd-4807-8270-a7637dbe4142