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Statement: When it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in Massachusetts (when Mitt Romney was governor), it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector.
Speaker: martin o'malley
About the speaker: Martin O'Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He has also served as the mayor of Baltimore.
Date: May 27, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs
Context: an appearance on Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: O’Malley said that Massachusetts’ public sector payroll grew at six times the rate of the private sector during Romney’s term as governor. That statistic is  only when counting state employees. But he said "public sector," which would include local government workers such as teachers and cops. What’s more, as Burtless pointed out, even though the growth rate was greater in government jobs, private-sector jobs still accounted for more of the state’s increase. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. That meets our definition of .
Statement: Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: October 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Bachmann said, "Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function." She's right that the Obama administration announced the program was ending. But the Obama administration is being forced to scuttle the program because it can't meet the cost requirements the law sets out. It's not because the administration's support is folding in the face of unpopularity. Bachmann messes up so many of the details as to significantly misrepresent the situation. We rate her statement .
Statement: A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year, a high school graduate makes $28,000 a year, a college graduate makes $51,000 a year.
Speaker: don lemon
About the speaker: Don Lemon is a CNN anchor based in Atlanta and New York City.
Date: July 27, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: education;pundits
Context: a commentary on CNN
Fact-check justification: Depending on what data is collected, how that data is collected and what data set you consider, Lemon’s  could be correct, or at least within a few thousand dollars for each educational level. But use other data, and his  could be off by several thousand dollars. Also of note, several factors -- including gender, occupation, age and the economy -- can influence annual and lifetime earnings for workers at all education levels. Still, his overall theme that higher educational attainment equals higher wages seems to be correct no matter which data set is considered. We rated Lemon’s  .
Statement: The COVID-19 vaccine caused Katy Perry's eye to close during a recent show.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 24, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Justin Bieber was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a rare illness that caused full paralysis on one side of his face, and Hailey Bieber was hospitalized after a blood clot traveled to her brain. But experts we spoke with at the time said that there’s no  vaccines caused either condition.   Medical experts say the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at preventing serious or fatal cases of the disease. The risk of serious side effects is small. With no  showing that the COVID-19 vaccine is connected to Perry’s eye incident, we rate this  .
Statement: Swedish health authorities considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 22, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image on Facebook claimed Swedish health authorities were "considering introducing restrictions because of monkeypox outbreak." While Sweden took steps to classify monkeypox as dangerous and ensure that cases would be reported for contact tracing purposes, the country’s top health official said there are currently no plans to introduce "limits or restrictions on how we live due to monkeypox." We rate this  . RELATED: Monkeypox outbreak: What to know about its spread, symptoms and vaccines
Statement: Two million new jobs have been created," in California since 2011.
Speaker: jerry brown
About the speaker: Jerry Brown is the governor of California. A Democrat, he earlier served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.
Date: January 21, 2016
Location: california
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a State of the State address
Fact-check justification: In his State of the State address, Gov. Jerry Brown said "two million jobs have been created" in California since 2011. The most reliable data used by both independent economists and the Brown Administration show California had about 14.3 million nonfarm payroll jobs when the governor returned to office in January 2011 and just over 16.3 million jobs last month. That’s a net growth of more than two million jobs. We rate the governor’s  .
Statement: Dyson is canceling their contract with Walmart and selling off Dyson Supersonic" hair dryers "only for $1!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 6, 2022
Topics: economy;facebook fact-checks
Context: Facebook posts
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claims Dyson is ending its partnership with Walmart and the retailer is selling off its stock of Supersonic hair dryers for $1.  That’s not . Walmart offers Dyson products only through its third-party marketplace. The hair dryers are available on Walmart.com through those sellers for hundreds of dollars, not $1. The Facebook page promoting the deals is not connected with Walmart, and the company said the post was . We rate this  .
Statement: Video shows Joe Biden saying "we can only re-elect Donald Trump.
Speaker: robin vos
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
Date: March 7, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Vos says the media is ignoring a video showing Biden saying, "we can only re-elect Donald Trump." Vos implies by his statement that the video is an accurate representation of reality — and therefore worthy of media coverage. But the clip in question was cut off-mid sentence, fundamentally changing a statement that actually said Trump would only be re-elected "if in fact (Democrats) get engaged in this circular firing squad here." We rate Vos’s  — like the attached video — .
Statement: Like every budget passed by the Senate since I have been lieutenant governor, Senate Bill 1 is within the spending limit set by the Texas Constitution.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: April 9, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Fact-check justification: "That's what I do every day." Our rating Patrick said, "Like every budget passed by the Senate since I have been lieutenant governor, Senate Bill 1 is within the spending limit set by the Texas Constitution." He’s right. It’s also  that lawmakers have only ever opted to exceed this limit once since it was added to the Constitution. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.
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: November 24, 2012
Location: national
Topics: corporations;medicaid;welfare;workers
Context: a Huffington Post column
Fact-check justification: Grayson's  about Wal-Mart employees on Medicaid and food stamps has support from several reports, although it's worth noting that some of them come from Democratic or labor-funded groups that are critical of Wal-Mart.     Comprehensive figures are not available, but we did find considerable  that echoes Grayson’s point about employee dependence on public health assistance in several states. His  about Walmart employees on food stamps is not as substantiated, but we did not find any substantial  that contradicted his point. His  about the $1,000 cost has the least support because it's based on two studies that are eight years old. Also, the presence of Wal-Mart at the top of the list is not necessarily unexpected given its size and the nature of wages for retailing. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Trump just gave a $12 billion bailout to farmers hurt by his failed tariffs. This will cost every household in the U.S. $95 … Trump is borrowing the money from China since his tax cuts blew a trillion dollar hole in the deficit.
Speaker: the other 98%
About the speaker: The Other 98% is an activist organization that favors an increase in the minimum wage and opposes favorable tax treatment for large corporations.
Date: July 24, 2018
Location: national
Topics: trade
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A recent Facebook post calls Trump’s recent announcement of an emergency aid package to farmers a "bailout." It also claims that the package will cost each household $95, and Trump borrowed money to finance it from China because his tax cuts left a trillion dollar hole in the deficit. The USDA did recently announce a $12 billion aid package for farmers, but some would consider the labeling of it as a "bailout" to be  since farmers were not responsible for the tariffs and other factors that led to the aid package being necessary. It’s also not fair to declare that the package would cost each household $95, since different households pay taxes at different rates. In addition, the government isn’t directly borrowing the money to finance the aid package from China. They’re borrowing the money from the U.S. Treasury. China buys and owns Treasury securities, but those securities have a very remote connection to the aid package. Lastly, the federal deficit hasn’t been over $1 trillion since 2012. The CBO doesn’t project it to be over $1 trillion until 2020. We rate the claims in the post .
Statement: Says Delta Air Lines has "once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis.
Speaker: steve cohen
About the speaker: Born May 24, 1949 in Memphis, Tenn.
In the House since 2006, he's a regional whip for the Democrats. In August of 2008, he was instrumental in passing H.Res.194, a House resolution apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African Americans. A fourth-generation Memphian, he got his start as a Shelby County Commissioner, and served in the Tennessee state Senate for 24 years, where he became known throughout the state as the “Father of the Tennessee Lottery.”  
Date: October 31, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: government regulation;regulation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen accuses Delta of breaking promises made to him and the city of Memphis about the impact of its merger with Northwest. Delta has subsequently ended the city’s direct flight to Amsterdam and has cut the number of flights nearly in half. We rule this statement .
Statement: Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and "lost by 20 points.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: December 20, 2019
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: the sixth Democratic presidential debate
Fact-check justification: In a battle over who’s more electable, Klobuchar said Buttigieg ran for state office in Indiana and lost by 20 points. The race was in 2010, before Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend. He ran for state treasurer against an incumbent and lost by nearly 25 percentage points. You can debate the relevance of that election on today’s race, but Klobuchar’s facts are solid. .
Statement: Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself.
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 24, 2015
Location: national
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: an interview on the Kelly File
Fact-check justification: Paul said that according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself." The big picture shows nearly any Republican candidate getting approximately 40 percent of the vote when matched up against Clinton, so it’s hard to argue that any particular candidate is in the lead in this regard. One poll shows Paul with the highest support among Republicans against Clinton. But the size of the margin of error allows for the possibility that Paul might, in reality, be behind other Republican candidates. Additionally that is the only poll that shows Paul with a lead. Because it’s hard to say if any candidate, so far out from the 2016 election, is the clear frontrunner in a hypothetical race against Clinton, we rate Paul’s  .
Statement: Milwaukee County has "a parks capital budget that's bigger than it's been in the last 10 years.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: October 1, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;county government;recreation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: In addition, the 2007 budget was just a shade over Abele’s 2013 mark, though if inflation were factored in, the gap would grow. Our rating Abele told Rotarians that Milwaukee County has a "parks capital budget that’s bigger than it’s been in the last 10 years." By any measure, this  misses the mark. While Abele’s 2013 budget funded parks capital at a higher level than at least six other budgets in the decade, it’s not close to the leader. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Lois Frankel "took a 40 percent pay raise" as mayor while West Palm Beach "lost jobs.
Speaker: yg action fund
About the speaker: YG Action Fund is a conservative PAC.
Date: September 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The YG Action PAC said that "Frankel took a 40 percent pay raise as mayor." Frankel did form a committee to explore whether she should get a pay raise and that resulted in a 40 percent boost -- an extra $35,750 -- in 2004. However the ad omits the context for that raise -- the mayor’s salary hadn’t had an increase since 1998 and after she got the raise in 2004, her salary then remained set at $125,000 a year until she left office in 2011. The ad also stated that while Frankel got a hefty pay hike, the city "lost jobs." The unemployment rate rose from about 5.8 percent to 10.2 percent during her tenure. But the number of employed actually increased slightly and Frankel can’t be blamed for a national recession. If we look at the big swing that occurred in the economy, "no mayor in the world would be able to counterbalance the forces that were in play," Snaith said. For those omissions about context, we rate this  .
Statement: Says that under the law, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio "can't open" the city's schools.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: April 11, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: education;states
Context: a briefing
Fact-check justification: Cuomo said that under the law, de Blasio "can’t open" New York City’s schools. Cuomo has a point that New York state law does permit the governor of New York to seize such powers as closing schools as long as there is a declared emergency. But while Cuomo has declared an emergency due to the coronavirus, he hasn’t gone so far as to exercise the power of pre-empting local school-closing powers. This has enabled the city to continue calling the shots on whether the schools should be opened or remain closed. The statement is partially accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Obama opposes innovation, the electric car and "clean, safe, nuclear energy.
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: June 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: a Web ad
Fact-check justification: It's not a blanket endorsement — Obama says it's important to protect the security of nuclear fuel and waste and determine how to store the waste — but it's still a part of his plan. So McCain is way, way off with these charges. It's not that he's just missing nuances or exaggerating; he has completely distorted Obama's positions, falsely claiming that Obama opposes research and innovation on the most significant political issue of the summer. He portrays Obama as a impediment to energy research when the Democratic candidate has been at least as assertive on the issue as McCain has — and has been touting his energy plan since last October. It's so  we have to set the meter ablaze: .
Statement: The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?
Speaker: mark born
About the speaker: Mark Born is an American law enforcement officer and politician. Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Born graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College. He then worked in the Dodge County, Wisconsin sheriff department. Born also served on the Beaver Dam Common Council.
Date: January 12, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;science;coronavirus
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Born tweeted "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?"  The panel did draw its line for Phase 1B at 70 year olds and included those in "congregate living facilities" -- a group that includes prison inmates. But the recommendations were not sent to the full department until days later. By that time, the department had lowered the age threshold to 65, and started that group before prisons. It’s unclear if blowback to the idea of inmates-before-Grandma prompted the department to take a different approach, as Republicans argue. But it is clear the department had not taken a public position at the time.  Our definition of  is "The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: Says "for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: February 22, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: a video online
Fact-check justification: That said, Adams is the mayor of an urban area and it makes sense that he would be thinking in terms of the cost of urban freeway construction. When you’re talking about that sort of freeway construction, $60 million falls pretty near the middle of the $20 million to $80 million estimated average cost. The mayor could have been a little more exact, but his statistic -- that Portland has spent on its bikeway infrastructure what it would spend on a mile of freeway -- seems to stand up to scrutiny. We’ll give this one a . Comment on this item.
Statement: Says he has a track record of not raising taxes.
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: October 15, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Some people wound up paying less, but some are paying more." We never heard back from Perry on his tax track record. Upshot: Legislation, reports, news articles and expert analysis show that Perry has signed about half a dozen tax increases into law, including the three 2006 changes intended to help cover cuts in school property taxes. Texans paying more thanks to Perry's signature on tax-increase measures include companies with higher business taxes, plus cigarette smokers and purchasers of smokeless tobacco, fireworks and diesel equipment. We rate the statement .
Statement: Countless Southwest Airlines employees have walked out of their jobs to oppose the vaccine mandate, causing operations to effectively shut down.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: October 10, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: transportation;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet said, "Countless Southwest Airlines employees have walked out of their jobs to oppose the vaccine mandate, causing operations to effectively shut down." The  — along with other variations circulating online — is unsubstantiated. Southwest and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association denied that Southwest pilots led any such walkout or sickout to protest the vaccine mandate. They attributed the flight cancellations to other factors, including bad weather and other issues on Friday that prompted a wave of cancellations. Without , we rate this  .