copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Disney and Google bought the rights to the first King James Bible.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-28)
Evidence (2024-07-03): Did Disney and Google buy the rights to the first King James Version of the Bible? No, that's not true: No sources are cited in the Instagram post where the claim is stated. The claim first appeared in a 2018 article from The Babylon Bee, a well-known satirical website. Lead Stories could not find any supporting evidence that would corroborate the claim. [...] Searching on Google led to a 2018 article (archived here) from The Babylon Bee titled, "Disney Buys Rights To The Bible, Plans 37 Sequels."
Claim: “Disney and Google bought the rights to the first King James Bible.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-28)
Evidence (2024-02-07): An old rumor that Disney bought the rights to the Bible has re-emerged online, so where did this start, and what is actually going on? Here’s Disney Fanatic’s fact-check and deep dive! [...] It appears the origin of the rumor dates back to 2018 when the satire site The Babylon Bee released an article claiming that Disney bought the rights to The Bible and planned to make 37 sequels. The site also seemingly republished this article on social media periodically as it also surfaced on X, formerly Twitter, in 2019. [...] Disney Buys Rights To The Bible, Plans 37 Sequelshttps://t.co/vPgT4kulGD — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 9, 2019
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2020-05-17): States commonly take on debt to pay for construction and environmental projects. Debt is not the same as a budget shortfall. All four states have debt. The amount of state budget shortfalls due to the pandemic is a moving target. States can have debt and a balanced budget.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2020-05-18): A Facebook post lists metrics for the four most populous states including their budgets. It states that Texas and Florida have "balanced" budgets while California is "in debt $54 billion and New York is "in debt $6.1 billion." While this post didn’t comment on the party affiliations of the governors, similar posts point out that the governors of Florida and Texas are Republicans while the governors of New York and California are Democrats. [...] While Florida and Texas have passed balance budgets, they too are certain to face economic woes related to the pandemic. [...] The $6.1 billion figure for New York stems from projections late last year about a shortfall, and ignores that the state has since passed a balanced budget.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2010-12-01): Sen. John Cornyn says 49 states have a balanced budget amendment in their state constitutions [...] An appendix in the report lists 45 states, including Texas, with a constitutional citation concerning a balanced budget requirement, and four states that have a statutory requirement. Vermont is the only state with neither. The information comes from the legislative fiscal staff in each state, said Ron Snell, director of state services at NCSL. [...] More substantively, the report notes that there's no consensus on which states have or do not have balanced-budget laws. That is, not every state has an explicit requirement that state expenditures not exceed projected revenue. The report names Wyoming, North Dakota and Alaska as states whose balanced-budget requirements are debated.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-05-12): California’s estimated $31.5-billion budget deficit is forcing Gov. Gavin Newsom to begin reining in his progressive policy agenda, in a stark change from the surpluses that graced his first years in office. [...] "Warnings of the governor’s unsustainable budget path are now colliding with economic reality," said Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield), vice chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, in a statement. "The fact that the governor continues to overspend creating structural deficits in future years is fiscally irresponsible." [...] Prior budgets allocated $54 billion over five years to Newsom’s initiatives to combat climate change, and his revised budget lowers that amount to $48 billion. The decrease reflects reduced investments in the state’s effort to switch to zero-emission vehicles and expand clean transportation infrastructure.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2021-02-17): These differences have many speculating that Texas’ approach of lower taxes and limited government is better than California’s model of higher taxes and stronger regulation for fostering economic growth and a brighter future. And there is no shortage of news stories about companies moving from California to Texas and other states with lower tax rates. At the same time, many maintain that California remains the dominant destination for venture capital funding and other drivers of innovation, while also noting some of the downsides of Texas’ lower spending on programs related to health, education, and other social priorities. [...] Therefore, on this (highly imperfect) metric, Texas government outperforms California despite the Lone Star State’s much lower per pupil expenditures.[7] This may partly reflect the fact that in Texas the state scores well on holding its public K-12 schools accountable (with strong ratings on two of three metrics used in a state-by-state assessment) — as allowed for by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act — while in contrast California scores poorly (with a weak rating on all three metrics) (Fordham Institute, 2017). [...] California and Texas have much to celebrate in recent years but also multiple fronts on which improvement is needed. Economically, each state has become significantly more powerful. Texas has seen a population boom while California’s growth has been in per capita incomes and GDP. With respect to other measures of well-being, California excels on health outcomes but fares poorly on housing affordability and air quality while Texas is the opposite in all three cases.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2024-08-16): List of U.S. state budgets This is a list of U.S. state government budgets as enacted by each state's legislature.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2021-10-18): New study compares the economic policies of Texas and California by: Tom Miller [...] The study points out that some may speculate that Texas’ approach of lower taxes and limited government works better than California’s model of higher taxes and stronger regulation when it comes to fostering economic growth. [...] While Texas has seen a population boom, California has surging per capita income and GDP.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-06-30): The differing fortunes are highlighting the growing divisions between the largest Democrat and Republican-led states at a time when they’re competing for businesses and people to relocate, and their leaders are often sniping at each other over policies from immigration to taxation. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is seeking to cut taxes even further with a record $33 billion surplus, while Florida’s 9% bump in revenue so far this year is fueling record spending — giving Governor Ron DeSantis a boost as he fights for the Republican presidential nomination. Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the dynamic reflects core differences between states’ tax bases. California and New York saw their populations shrink by about 294,000 residents in the year through July 1, 2022, while Florida and Texas added about 888,000 residents collectively, according to Census Bureau data. [...] Meanwhile, Florida and Texas rely on taxes on sales, which have held up well as Americans keep spending, to the surprise of economists. Those levies have also been bolstered by inflation.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-01-09): Texas lawmakers will have $188.2 billion available for the next budget after record-breaking revenue growth [...] Monday’s budget estimate reflects a robust economic rebound as the state worked to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic but accounts for an expected mild recession this year — albeit a "relatively shallow and short" one for Texas — and a resulting slowdown in consumer spending, employment and personal income levels, said Hegar, a Republican entering his third term as comptroller. [...] Passing a balanced budget — one that spends no more than what is expected to be available — is the only thing the Texas Legislature is constitutionally required to do during its regular 140-day session.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-01-11): Red Texas is flush, blue California has a deficit, but it’s more about economics than politics [...] This week, we learned the two most populous states in the country are in very different fiscal places right now. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking for ways to patch a $23 billion deficit. Meanwhile, in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott is thinking up ways to spend a $33 billion surplus. [...] Generally speaking though, "state budgets are doing well," said Richard Auxier with the Tax Policy Center. "But there is a bit of concern about what’s on the horizon."
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2024-05-10): This is the second year in a row the nation’s most populous state is facing a multibillion-dollar shortfall. State revenues have continued to fall amid increasing inflation and a slowdown in the state’s usually robust technology industry. [...] Newsom proposed a $288 billion spending plan on Friday for the fiscal year that starts July 1. That is well below the nearly $311 billion budget he signed into law last year. But it is still by far the largest of any state in the country. New York recently passed a $237 billion budget, and Texas and Florida spend far less annually. [...] California’s constitution requires lawmakers and the governor to balance the budget — meaning the state can’t spend more money than it has. That means they have to either find more money by raising taxes, which Newsom doesn’t want to do, or find ways to cut, shift or delay spending. Newsom’s proposal focuses mostly on cuts, but it will also dip into reserve funding.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2020-11-23): The year 2020 has not been a kind one for budgets. Whether it’s spending more than ever to stay alive or cutting costs to stay afloat, everyone’s been feeling the pressure, especially state governments. Fortunately, most states are in the black in terms of their finances, at least according to their latest comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFR), covering the fiscal year July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. There are, however, several states whose budgets went into this year’s pandemic crisis already in poor shape. [...] Looking at states in terms of their debt ratio — total liabilities to total assets — the state with the most debt has almost five times as much debt as assets — $248.67 billion in liabilities to $53.05 billion in assets. There are 13 states whose net positions are negative, meaning, they have more total liabilities and deferred inflows of resources than they do total assets and deferred outflows of resources. In absolute numbers, California is the states with the most debt with $362.87 billion in total liabilities in 2019. However, with total assets worth $301.1 billion, California’s net position is better than some states with less debt. [...] In absolute terms, New York has the worst net position, being $203.77 billion in the red. With total assets worth about $106.61 billion, New York’s debt ratio is actually lower than many states with better net positions.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-03-13): Your Texas lawmakers are required — per the state’s constitution — to pass a balanced budget. They can spend any amount of the surplus before the 2022-23 biennium ends Aug. 31, or they can add all or part of it into the 2024-25 budget. Or they can do nothing with it at all. Exactly how they decide to use this enormous windfall is now the central conversation before the Texas Legislature. [...] Texas’ $32.7 billion surplus is about the size of the budget of South Carolina. It’s larger than the budgets of 24 states. Texas’ overall budget is the third biggest after California and New York, and followed by Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Florida, according to a 2022 survey conducted by the National Association of State Budget Officers.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2024-03-26): Last month, California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office, or LAO, which is the nonpartisan state department that advises California’s policymakers on the state’s fiscal issues, increased their estimate for the state’s 2024–25 budget deficit to $73 billion. This estimate substantially exceeds Gavin Newsom’s estimate of a $38 billion deficit. Both estimates stand in sharp contrast to the state’s $100 billion surplus from two years earlier. [...] California’s constitution requires a balanced budget. But despite a projected deficit that is almost twice as high as it was during the financial crisis, Sacramento has offered little in the way of specifics for dealing with this. I expect Newsom will declare a fiscal emergency, which would allow the state to substantially tap into California’s $23 billion "rainy day" fund. Newsom recently stated that he and legislators agreed on reducing the budget gap by $12 billion–$18 billion, but neither he nor Democrats in the State Senate or Assembly indicated how this was to be achieved. [...] Some state legislators are looking for new taxes, including a wealth tax, which would ultimately devastate California. Newsom states he opposes new taxes, but $73 billion isn’t chump change, and California’s constitution requires a balanced budget to begin on July 1.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-06-07): The $321.3 billion spending plan that Texas lawmakers approved for the next two years is balanced and on its way to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk after it was certified Wednesday by the state’s chief financial officer, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar. Before Abbott can review the budget that will direct the state’s spending for the next two years, the comptroller had to certify that the 1,115-page plan doesn’t spend more money than the state expects to bring in. Passing a balanced budget is the only task the Texas Constitution requires of lawmakers during their regular session every two years. [...] "This budget addresses the diverse range of needs in our rapidly expanding state," said Senate Finance Chair Joan Huffman, R-Houston, who helped lead the process with House Appropriations Chair Greg Bonnen, another Houston-area Republican. "With the state experiencing a record-breaking surplus, increasing demands and skyrocketing national inflation, crafting this budget was a challenge because we were obligated to stay under the spending limits and plan for population growth and downturns in the global economy."
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-10-24): A new report from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis on the effects of massive federal outlays to combat the economic effects of the pandemic provides another clue as to why California’s revenue forecasts were so wrong. State-by-state, the report charts hundreds of billions of dollars that the feds pumped into the economy to support those who were adversely affected by pandemic-related shutdowns.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2020-01-28): If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged, federal deficits would continue to be large by historical standards from 2020 through 2030 and beyond, the Congressional Budget Office projects (see Figure 1-1). As a result of those deficits, federal debt would rise each year, reaching a percentage of the nation’s output that is unprecedented in U.S. history. [...] To put debt on a sustainable path, lawmakers will have to make significant changes to tax and spending policies—increasing revenues more than they would under current law, reducing spending below projected amounts, or adopting some combination of those approaches. [...] Future deficits and debt are likely to differ from CBO’s current-law projections for a number of reasons. Changes to laws and administrative actions—particularly those affecting fiscal policies—that cause them to differ from the laws and policies underlying CBO’s baseline projections could lead to budgetary outcomes that diverge considerably from those in the baseline.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2010-02-09): Troy, Michigan-based Delphi Corporation, once America's biggest auto-parts maker, obtained confirmation of a chapter 11 plan on January 25, 2008, but struggled throughout 2008–09 to secure $6.1 billion in exit financing or capital contemplated by the plan (including Delphi's inability to close on a $2.55 billion investment from private equity fund Appaloosa Management). Delphi filed for bankruptcy on October 8, 2005, in New York, listing $17 billion in assets and $22 billion in debt, including an $11 billion underfunded pension liability.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2011-09-20): - The 2.8 million U.S. jobs lost or displaced by the trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2010 were distributed among all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, with the biggest net losses occurring in California (454,600 jobs), Texas (232,800), New York (161,400), Illinois (118,200), Florida (114,400), North Carolina (107,800), Pennsylvania (106,900), Ohio (103,500), Massachusetts (88,600), and Georgia (87,700). [...] Growing trade deficits with China have reduced demand for goods produced in every region of the United States and led to job displacement in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as shown in Table 4A and Figure A. Jobs displaced due to growing deficits with China exceeded 2.2% of total employment in states such as New Hampshire, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, North Carolina, Minnesota, Idaho, Vermont, Colorado, and Rhode Island. More than 450,000 jobs were lost in California, more than 230,000 in Texas, and more than 110,000 each in New York, Illinois, and Florida, as shown in the list of state job losses ranked by number of jobs displaced in Table 4B. An alphabetical list of job losses by state is shown in Table 4C. Growing trade deficits with China displaced 2.8 million jobs in the United States and Puerto Rico between 2001 and 2010, about 2.0% of total U.S. employment, as shown in Table 4A.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-06-06): Nationally, about $6.1 billion or 43 percent of the money spent at the local level went to a category described as meeting student needs, the fiscal year 2021 analysis found. That includes spending on tutoring; summer and afterschool programs; rigorous curricula; additional school counselors, nurses, and school psychologists; and the implementation of community schools. [...] The U.S. Education Department released estimates of how much money each state should receive, ranging from $32 million in stabilization funding for K-12 education in Wyoming to $1.6 billion in California. (see full chart below) Under the governors discretionary funding, New York will have $164 million to spend, while Rhode Island will have less than $9 million. In California, EdSource has calculated how much each of the state’s school district could receive. The CARES Act money must be obligated by September 2022. The department released a frequently asked questions sheet about the process.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2022-09-07): The 2,254 candidates running for the House of Representatives reported combined total receipts of $1.5 billion, disbursements of $1 billion, debts of $138.2 million and cash-on-hand of $802.2 million in the 18-month period. In addition to the 2022 primary and general elections, these numbers encompass financial activity associated with the 2021 special elections for Florida’s 20th, Louisiana’s 2nd and 5th, New Mexico’s 1st, Ohio’s 11th and 15th, and Texas’s 6th Congressional Districts and the Special Runoff election for Georgia’s Senate seat, and with the 2022 special elections for Alaska’s At-Large, California’s 22nd, Florida’s 20th, Minnesota’s 1st, Nebraska’s 1st, New York’s 19th and 23rd, and Texas’s 34th Congressional Districts, as well as the Special Elections for California’s and Oklahoma’s Senate seats.
Claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.” (Facebook post, 2020-05-17)
Evidence (2023-10-19): Nationwide, our analysis is encouraging: Thirty-eight states (including large states such as Florida, New Jersey, and Texas, as well as smaller states like Iowa and Maine) face a low risk of encountering such cliffs. But among the most populous states, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania used SLFRF to cover recurring costs that are equivalent to a significant 2.5 percent or more of their fiscal 2022 general fund expenditures and thus face a moderate to elevated likelihood of encountering a fiscal cliff when federal dollars run out. These big states contain 28 percent of America’s population and almost one-third of total state general fund spending. Several smaller states, including Alaska, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, also tapped SLFRF for at least 2.5 percent of general fund expenditures and face fiscal cliff risks. (We detail use of SLFRF funds by the eleven biggest states in the State Report Cards section of this paper.) [...] Office of the New York State Comptroller, Identifying Fiscal Cliffs in New York City’s Financial Plan, May 30, 2023, https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/identifying-fiscal-cliffs-new-….