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Statement: When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong.
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: February 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Houston, Texas
Fact-check justification: Now in the same Forbes report on CEO compensation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is listed as the highest-paid boss of America's 500 biggest companies at $646.6-million a year. Doing the math on Jobs' income, he makes $53,883 in 10 minutes. That's $18,280 more than the average worker's annual salary. So, while it's fair to say some CEOs "are making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in an entire year," Obama would be on safer ground if he qualified his statement. We rule his statement .
Statement: At the World Economic Forum, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel admitted that his company produced 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 2019, before the pandemic started.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: February 12, 2023
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: Instagram posts
Fact-check justification: An article and Instagram posts  Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company produced 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before the pandemic. Bancel was not referring to COVID-19 vaccine doses, but rather the company’s entire portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics including those for rare diseases and cancer.  Moderna partnered with the National Institutes of Health in January 2020 to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. We rate this  .
Statement: The widow and son of a deceased military veteran looked on in horror as Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of the State of the Union.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 5, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: A similar photo of Kelli Hake wiping her eyes was taken by the Associated Press at 10:14 p.m. (ET), the time that Trump was speaking about Hake and the roadside bomb that killed him in Baghdad in 2008. While the image is from the same event, and the speech does contain Sgt. Hake’s name, the post makes it look like it’s showing the family’s reaction to Pelosi’s action. That’s . We rate it .
Statement: Says the Congressional Budget Office estimates a cap-and-trade program would cost the average family the equivalent of "a postage stamp a day.
Speaker: edward markey
About the speaker: Edward Markey was elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 2013 and previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: June 20, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: By not including all variables, the CBO report "grossly underestimates costs of cap-and-trade," said a memo from the Heritage Foundation, which has published many articles opposing the proposal. Among other things, Heritage says the study is flawed because it doesn't address economic changes resulting from restricted energy use and potential job losses. For this -O-Meter item, we are not addressing which study is best, but focusing on whether Markey correctly described the CBO's findings. He was close — off by just 4 cents — and he indicated it was an approximation because he said "about a postage stamp a day." So we find the statement .
Statement: 97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health.
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: July 26, 2015
Location: national
Topics: abortion;public health
Context: a New Hampshire interview
Fact-check justification: O’Malley said, "97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health." According to Planned Parenthood, about 97 percent of the services the group provides in a given year are services other than abortion. That includes preventive and primary care. Preventive care accounts for about 85 to 90 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides. While mammograms are considered a form of preventive care, Planned Parenthood doesn’t do their own mammograms. Clinics perform breast exams and refer patients to outside clinics for an actual mammogram. The  wasn’t pulled out of thin air, but it’s missing some important information, so we rate O’Malley’s  .
Statement: The Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse "must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes -- taken down, or even at half-staff, if that can be done -- must be passed by a supermajority of the General Assembly.
Speaker: jean casarez
About the speaker: Jean Casarez is a CNN correspondent.
Date: June 21, 2015
Topics: history;race and ethnicity;states;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN
Fact-check justification: A CNN reporter said, "By law, (the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Capitol) must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes -- taken down, or even at half-staff, if that can be done -- must be passed by a supermajority of the general assembly." In 2000, South Carolina passed legislation that mandated the flag’s location, a height of 30 feet, and a supermajority vote to make any changes. The Confederate flag has never been removed or, to our knowledge, lowered since it was raised on the Confederate Soldiers’ Monument on the capitol grounds. We rate this  .
Statement: At present spending levels, only citizens of New York have a greater local debt burden than Texans.
Speaker: debra medina
About the speaker: Debra Medina, a Wharton businesswoman, sought the 2010 GOP nomination for governor.
Date: December 13, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: city government;county government;debt
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Medina said, "At present spending levels, only citizens of New York have a greater local debt burden than Texans," but without mentioning that her comparison was based on the 10 most-populated states. Texas is second among the big states and third among all 50 in recent estimates. We rate her statement as .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Oprah tells Fox News host 'all white people have to die.'
Speaker: americannews.com
About the speaker: AmericanNews.com is a website of undetermined origin. 
Date: October 12, 2014
Topics: fake news;race and ethnicity;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: A headline on American News said that "Oprah tells Fox News host ‘all white people have to die.’" We found multiple versions of this story circulating with similar headlines. The headline gets key details  and twists Winfrey’s words. She did not say that all white people have to die. What Winfrey actually told a BBC interviewer in 2013 was that some older people grew up surrounded by racism. When she said "they just have to die," she seemed to be suggesting that a certain type of racism will have to die out when this generation dies. We rate this  . '
Statement: Says 97 percent of gun owners support universal background checks.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: February 22, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: government regulation;polls and public opinion;guns
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: For example, support was 94 percent among gun households in Quinnipiac’s December 2017 and November 2017 polls, the most recent ones done before the February 2018 poll. Our rating Baldwin says "97 percent" of gun owners support universal background checks. The figure is correct for the latest national poll, completed days before her , that asked about requiring background checks for all gun purchases. The only clarification is that the respondents weren’t all necessarily gun owners, but rather lived in a household where they or someone else own a gun. We rate Baldwin’s statement .
Statement: In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 2, 2012
Location: national
Topics: corporations;income;occupy wall street;taxes
Context: on the Internet
Fact-check justification: The one thing the Facebook  gets right is that corporations are carrying less of the burden for taxation now compared to 1950. But the difference is not nearly as dramatic as the Facebook post indicates, and its numbers are wide of the mark. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life.
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 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a Republican presidential primary debate
Fact-check justification: In this case, his wording is slightly different, that he had not "ever hired an illegal in my life." It's clear from the Globe's reporting that he hired a landscaping company and that employed illegal immigrants. He has made the argument he hired the company, not the specific workers. Still, they were doing hired work on his property. We find his  .
Statement: CDC says 60% of Americans have parasites.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: September 26, 2022
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: It’s one of the most common parasites in the world, according to the Mayo Clinic , and is often found in cat feces and can infect humans. The news release does not mention the percentage of people in the U.S. who are infected with parasites.   We did not find any information in news releases or other information from the CDC that says 60% of Americans have parasites. The CDC did not respond to a request for comment. We rate the  .
Statement: A slain Chicago police officer left behind a two-month-old baby.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 8, 2021
Location: illinois
Topics: crime;public safety;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Brown also said this during an Aug. 8 news conference. A reporter asked about rumors that French had just returned from maternity leave and had a child.   "That’s not accurate," Brown said. You can watch the exchange about 17 minutes into a recording of the conference .   We rate these posts .
Statement: Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law.
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: January 12, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;health care;jobs
Context: his State of the Union speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law." The private sector has seen job growth every single month since Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010. There’s room for argument over what the growth would have looked like absent the health care law, but Obama’s statistic is on target. We rate this  .
Statement: I've passed more bills than Sen. Larson has, because ... he hasn't passed any.
Speaker: david crowley
About the speaker: State Rep. David Crowley was elected in 2016 to the Wisconsin Assembly, representing the 17th District which encompasses much of Milwaukee’s Northwest side.
Date: March 11, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Crowley claimed he has "passed more bills than Sen. Larson has, because ... he hasn’t passed any." Crowley’ staff leaned on a narrow definition of authorship — only the first author in the chamber where the bill originated. If we consider authorship as being the person primarily responsible for a bill, Crowley has a point. But his  didn’t specify such a strict definition, and he’s referring to a subject where the state already has an official definition. Under the state standard, both Crowley and Larson have passed three bills. We define  as having an element of  but ignoring critical facts that would give a different impression. And that’s how we rate Crowley’s .
Statement: IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump
Speaker: the creative resistance
About the speaker: The Creative Resistance is a media-focused progressive advocacy group.
Date: October 24, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: campaign finance;elections;ethics
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The Creative Resistance said in a video "IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump." The IDC and its members do get money from donors in the lobbyists. But so do mainline Democrats, even if it’s less than their IDC colleagues. It's not  the IDC members benefit while Democrats do not.  The statement is accurate but needs clarification and additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.
Speaker: mandela barnes
About the speaker: Mandela Barnes is an American politician serving as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, Barnes is a former state representative. On August 14, 2018, he won the Democratic primary in a landslide and became the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Evers. Evers and Barnes went on to win the November 2018 election, defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African American lieutenant governor.
 
 
Date: May 23, 2021
Location: national
Topics: corporations;economy;workers;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: But it is wider than it was a few decades ago, when those wages were about 58 times that of the typical worker.   CEO pay has escalated like this because the top-ranking executives have the power to set pay, the study’s authors argue, contributing to rising wealth inequality.   Our rating  Barnes said CEO compensation has risen more than 1,000% since 1978, while wages for the average worker have only increased 11.9%.   That’s in line with findings from the Economic Policy Institute report.   We rate his  .
Statement: Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.
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: February 10, 2022
Topics: health care;health check
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Biden declared that because of the No Surprises Act, which took effect in January, millions of Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills. It’s estimated the NSA will protect against 10 million surprise bills a year.  Although it’s  that consumers are now shielded from many out-of-network bills, which are often termed "surprise bills" by lawmakers, patients still could end up with other types of large and unexpected medical bills. Biden’s statement is a bit too general and sweeping and needs clarification and additional context. We rate this  .
Statement: Says it's "an old wives' story" that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly.
Speaker: dick cheney
About the speaker: Dick Cheney served as Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush.
Date: April 8, 2013
Location: national
Topics: history;iraq;foreign policy
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Cheney called "that famous quote" nothing but "an old wives' story." But Bush and Thatcher themselves recount a phone call near the end of August 1990 in which Thatcher admonishes "this is no time to go wobbly." Popular accounts of the "wobbly" quote shift the statement to the beginning of August, giving it an early starring role that several insiders dispute. Instead, Bush and Thatcher describe a later, narrower discussion about when and how to enforce U.N. sanctions. Still, they agree she made the comment, and Bush says it became a common expression around the White House. We rate Cheney’s  .
Statement: Nearly 14,000 Wisconsinites have lost their job since Governor Walker and the Republicans took over in January.
Speaker: mark miller
About the speaker: Mark Miller, a Democrat, is the majority leader of the Wisconsin state Senate. Representing the Madison area, he has served in the Senate since 2005. He previously served in the state Assembly from 1999 through 2005. He became majority leader after a June 5, 2012 recall election shifted control to Democrats.
Date: September 28, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: But those who gather the numbers say they can’t be used in the manner Miller is using them. (It’s similar to an earlier fact-check, where Republicans were comparing the state job-growth numbers to the national ones.) Miller has the right number for the increase of unemployed people. But it’s impossible to know how many lost their jobs this year vs. those who lost their jobs earlier and are now starting to look again. We rate the statement .
Statement: Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid.
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: February 14, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Fact-check justification: As a sidelight, Brookings Institution health care scholar Henry Aaron points out that even the 54 percent of health care dollars that are privately financed are indirectly supported by the federal government, through such policies as tax exclusions for employer-provided health care. The value of these supports is estimated to run into the billions of dollars.    But that isn't what Biden was talking about. Essentially, the vice president cited an accurate number, but he failed to describe correctly what it meant, and he ended up making the share of federal Medicare and Medicaid spending seem half again as big as it actually is. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says the Portland Children's Levy holds its "administrative expenses to less than 5 percent.
Speaker: dan saltzman
About the speaker: Dan Saltzman is a Portland City Commissioner.
Date: November 11, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: children;city government
Context: a television news interview
Fact-check justification: An outfit like the Portland Children’s Levy needs little to no resources to collect revenue -- it comes out of property taxes -- while the new arts tax will require bodies to collect what is basically a head tax of $35 per adult worker. Lannom explained that voters authorized his office to spend up to 5 percent of revenue to collect the money. The Regional Arts and Culture Council has a separate 3 percent cap on coordination costs . PolitiFact Oregon can’t judge what is the proper amount for administrative costs, but we can say that Saltzman is accurate when he says the Portland Children’s Levy holds its "administrative expenses to less than 5 percent." The statement is .
Statement: In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants.
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: March 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: Miami
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that in 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants." Clinton may have boiled down the substance of the measures a bit too much, but her accounting is largely accurate -- importantly, in her  that Sanders voted for both measures. That said, Clinton glosses over the degree to which Democrats -- and not just Republicans -- supported both measures. We rate the  .