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Statement: Says she "would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin" and "Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs.
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: August 22, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating Clinton says she "would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin" and "Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs." The numbers are derived from analyses of Clinton and Trump policy proposals done by a respected economist from Moody Analytics who has supported both Democrats and Republicans. But the numbers are estimates, not certainties. Moreover, estimates done by the Tax Foundation using a different methodology project job gains under Trump but job losses under Clinton. For a statement that is partially accurate but needs additional information, our rating is .
Statement: If you are a member of  union, your median weekly income is roughly $200 more than if you are a nonunion member, and that doesn't include benefits.
Speaker: thomas perez
About the speaker: Thomas E. Perez was chosen as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Feb. 25, 2017. Previously he was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as Secretary of Labor and was sworn in on July 23, 2013. He previously served as the Secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
Date: June 18, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: unions;workers
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Perez said that a union member’s median weekly income is about $200 more than someone who is not in a union. His figure, on the whole, holds up, although there are some professions that are exceptions. But Perez clearly was talking in general terms. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Says taxpayer resources are being used "to facilitate private political agendas" through automatic payroll deduction of union dues.
Speaker: john thrasher
About the speaker: John Thrasher is a Republican state Senator representing District 8 in Northeast Florida and the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
Date: March 14, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: comments before a Senate committee
Fact-check justification: There's not any (financial) impact either way." Whatever the state spends on processing payroll deductions, it is so small no one can quantify it. Governments also could ask unions to pay for the cost as part of a union's collective bargaining agreement. There are reasons to vote for this bill, and Dorworth and Thrasher have articulated them, but cost isn't one of them. To us, that makes Thrasher's  .
Statement: Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season.
Speaker: alan grayson
About the speaker: Alan Grayson was initially elected to Congress in 2008, then defeated for re-election in 2010. He was elected again to Congress from a different district in 2012. He lost the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida in 2016.
Date: April 25, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: social security;taxes
Context: an Orlando debate
Fact-check justification: Grayson said James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season." That’s a broad statement meant to draw attention to the fact that Social Security taxes are capped at $118,500 of a person’s income, no matter how much they make. There are a lot of factors that go into how much James is paid, and how much of that goes to various taxes. But the bottom line is that the athlete only faces Social Security taxes for a relative sliver of his income. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/7010f3db-ddad-4d0d-98a5-197ed37eab1a UPDATE, April 28:  An astute reader pointed out a minor flaw in Grayson's specific talking point. The NBA season starts in the fall, while the tax year begins Jan. 1. As such, James hypothetically would hit the threshold in the second quarter of the first game he played in the new calendar year, not the first game of the season. We've added that information to this story. But  Grayson's point that the uber-wealthy quickly hit the Social Security tax cap remains just as valid.
Statement: We bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over.
Speaker: amy kremer
About the speaker: Amy Kremer is a tea party activist, most recently chairing the Tea Party Express.
Date: May 17, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget;medicare;social security;taxes
Context: an interview on "The Colbert Report"
Fact-check justification: For instance, J.D. Foster, an economist with the conservative Heritage Foundation, noted that some of the excess costs that Kremer left out of the equation could be picked up by reining in factors she did include. "If we're going to play ‘what if,’ then you have to allow that she may have wanted to cut some of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to make room for other spending that was off the list," he said. Kremer deserves credit for doing the math correctly. However, her decision to ignore defense and homeland security spending -- to say nothing of mandatory programs like veterans benefits and safety-related discretionary spending -- makes the comparison of questionable value to a discussion of the nation’s budget problems. We rate her statement .
Statement: If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.
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: September 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a speech to Congress
Fact-check justification: They will be allowed to use a national exchange where insurers compete to offer insurance, and prices are expected to be lower. Obama's statement from the speech is more carefully phrased than his earlier statement. In his speech, he said that if you are "already have health insurance through your job, Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have." That is , there is nothing in the plan that proactively forces these kinds of changes, and the bills clearly intend to leave much of the current health care system in place. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
Speaker: arianna huffington
About the speaker: Arianna Huffington founded the liberal news website Huffingtonpost.com, which she sold to AOL in 2011 for $315 million. In 2003, she unsuccessfully ran for governor of California.
Date: July 26, 2009
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;crime;pundits;marijuana
Context: This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Fact-check justification: One drug policy expert we contacted, Beau Kilmer of the RAND Corp., said our calculations were sound, though he added that Huffington’s comparison of drug use and incarceration has some logical holes. "We have to realize most drug use is marijuana, and that’s not the reason why people are going to prison — it’s the harder drugs," Kilmer said.      Ultimately, Huffington was right about one number and quite a bit off with the other. However, even at the much lower rates of incarceration we found, black Americans — who account for about 13 percent of the U.S. population — are still imprisoned for drug offenses at wildly disproportionate rates. So we rate this statement .
Statement: In rural Virginia, "Sen. Warner ran 8-10 points ahead of a traditional Democrat -- ahead of Senator Kaine, ahead of Governor McAuliffe.
Speaker: david hallock
About the speaker: David Hallock is an aide to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. A former lobbyist, Hallock served as deputy director of policy and deputy counsel for Warner when Warner was governor. More recently, Hallock was state directo, deputy chief of staff and legislative director for Sen. Warner. And he most recently worked in Warner's re-election campaign.
Date: November 12, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: elections
Context: a forum
Fact-check justification: Hallock said Warner, in this fall’s Senate election, ran "8-10 points ahead" of past performances by fellow Democrats McAuliffe and Kaine in rural Virginia. He’s flat out . McAuliffe’s portion of the rural vote, in his 2013 gubernatorial victory, was 3.6 percentage points below Warner’s. Kaine’s slice of the rural vote, in his 2012 Senate win, was 2.4 percentage points above Warner’s. We rate Hallock’s statement . Editor's note: An earlier version of this story said Hallock did not respond to three emails seeking data for his . Our requests were sent to an  email address for Hallock.
Statement: Donald Trump has been in public eye for over 30 years and he was never once accused of being racist by anyone until he decided to run against the Democrats.
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: May 16, 2019
Topics: candidate biography;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral image suggests that Donald Trump was only ever accused of racism after he decided to run for public office against Democrats. The record is clear, however, that Trump has deflected allegations that he is a racist since the 1970s and many times since. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Says Ted Cruz said, "There is no place for gays or atheists in my America. None. Our Constitution makes that clear.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 25, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;lgbtq;marriage;religion
Context: an online meme
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post suggests Cruz said the day he declared for president, "There is no place for gays or atheists in my America. None. Our Constitution makes that clear." Cruz has been clear about his belief in God and opposition to legalizing gay marriages. However, there is no record of him saying the Constitution leaves no place for gays or atheists in "my America." !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: July 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: By June 2010, the number was 107,700,000. That's a difference of 593,000 jobs -- "almost 600,000" in our book. In all, Biden's numbers understated the losses under Bush and overstated the losses under Obama, but both of these errors work against the administration's own interests. And in the third case, Biden's number easily qualifies as "almost 600,000." All in all, we rate Biden's statement .
Statement: The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime.
Speaker: patricia morgan
About the speaker: State Rep. Patricia L. Morgan, a Republican from West Warwick, is a vice president and financial adviser with Spire Investment Partners and has served as member of the House in the Rhode Island General Assembly since 2011.
Date: May 27, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: deficit;economy;history;state budget
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Morgan had her numbers right. And Richard Oster did famously tell the public that the center wasn’t going to cost the taxpayers a dime. But she failed to put Oster’s  in context. Oster didn’t say convention center revenues would pay its bills. He was talking about the center’s overall economic impact. And, as Gary Sasse says, without an independent scorekeeper, we won’t know whether the center’s impact offsets its costs. As a result, we rate her statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)   (An earlier version of this item gave an  ruling for Rep. Morgan's statement.)
Statement: We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education.
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: January 2, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: education;health care
Context: a Fox News TV show
Fact-check justification: Has the government seized control of education? West said: "We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education." This is the same type of overblown "takeover" rhetoric that led to our 2010 Lie of the Year award. The federal government was a major player in student loans for years before Obama signed the health care law. And the law does not mean that colleges and universities are now under the control or management of the federal government. We rate this  .
Statement: Wisconsin state and local government workers pay "$500, $600 or in some cases, $1,000" per year in union dues.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: February 20, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: an appearance on a TV interview program
Fact-check justification: Let’s return to the statement. In pushing his budget-repair bill, Walker said state and local government workers could stop paying union dues and take home $500 to $1,000 more per year in pay. He didn’t say most or many, but his statement suggests that a significant number of public employees pay dues in that range. And we found thousands of public employees who do. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Says Newt Gingrich aligned with Nancy Pelosi on global warming.
Speaker: make us great again
About the speaker: Make Us Great Again is a super PAC supporting Rick Perry for president.
Date: December 21, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: environment;climate change;message machine 2012
Context: a video ad
Fact-check justification: During the current campaign season, Gingrich has expressed regret about making that ad. In a section of his campaign website devoted to " answering the attacks, " Gingrich is quoted as telling Fox News’ Brett Baier in November that making the ad with Pelosi was "probably the dumbest single thing I've ever done." It goes on to explain that Gingrich opposes cap and trade legislation (although PolitiFact has found he supported it in the past) and that he favors increased domestic oil drilling. Our sense is the super PAC's video accurately touches on Gingrich teaming with Pelosi against global warming. We rate this  .
Statement: Warren Buffett called (Jeff) Greene's scheme 'financial weapons of mass destruction.'
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: July 26, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;financial regulation;message machine 2010
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Still, there's no doubt Greene was heavily involved in buying credit default swaps, which are a type of derivative. And Buffett was exceptionally critical of derivatives. The problem with Meek's ad is that it gives the impression that Buffett criticized Greene personally, which he didn't do. By saying Buffett called Greene's scheme a bad idea, Meek personalizes a comment that had nothing to do with Greene. Because of that, we rate Meek's statement .
Statement: We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one.
Speaker: bill pascrell
About the speaker: Bill Pascrell is Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey.
Date: November 16, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: guns
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Pascrell said there hasn’t been any legislation in the past 20 years that took a gun from anyone in the United States. Gun advocates disagree, pointing to the federal crime bill and the Lautenberg Amendment as examples. But the facts are a gun can't be taken from someone who never had it, and having to surrender a gun because of a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction can be construed as it being taken away. We rate Pascrell’s  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com . Editor's Note: This story was initially published by accident with a  ruling. The correct ruling is .
Statement: The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year.
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: November 7, 2010
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;this week - abc news;workers
Context: an interview on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour
Fact-check justification: Paul said that the "average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year." Most people hearing that would assume he was talking about salary alone, but  he was talking about total compensation, including benefits such as retirement pay and paid holidays. Although studies show federal employees typically earn more than their private-sector counterparts, the difference is nowhere near as much as the doubling Paul says. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Society is "choosing blood clots and heart problems over cold and flu symptoms, or even no symptoms at all.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 9, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Experts say that COVID-19 itself presents much more danger to the heart than vaccines do. Blood clots associated with the vaccines also are extremely rare . A serious syndrome involving blood clots known as TTS is associated with one of the three COVID-19 vaccines — Johnson & Johnson — that are administered in the United States. As of Nov. 24, 2021, more than 16.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the United States, and the CDC and Food and Drug Administration identified 54 confirmed reports of people who got the vaccine and later developed TTS. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Speaker: everytown for gun safety
About the speaker: Everytown for Gun Safety is an advocacy group that seeks to prevent gun violence.
Date: December 10, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: children;education;public safety;guns
Context: a recent report
Fact-check justification: And with that, it appears the new Everytown report on school shootings mirrors concerns raised before about how to tally school shootings. It is accurate, by its broad definition, that Georgia led the nation with its version of "school shootings." The report is also useful in explaining what often leads to violent incidents at school and college campuses. In the end, there is value in the findings but significant context missing from its overall conclusion. We rate the  .
Statement: Former FBI agent Ted Gunderson was murdered.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: July 17, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Gunderson was a former special agent for the FBI and head of the bureau’s Memphis office who retired in 1979 —  before the Oklahoma City bombing — and started a private security and investigations firm.   The Southern Poverty Law Center said that "he became fixated on the idea that children are regularly subjected to Satanic ritual abuse" and that he became a "leading conspiracy-monger," making videos "alleging an invisible cabal called the Illuminati had plans to run the world." But he wasn’t murdered for his beliefs. His son, Greg Gunderson, told The Associated Press in 2011 that his father died of cancer that year at the age of 82.   We rate claims he was killed .