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Tim Michels
stated on June 23, 2022 in Twitter:

“My company was building the Keystone Pipeline when (President Joe) Biden canceled it.”

By Kelly Smits • July 21, 2022
Zach Wahls
stated on May 31, 2022 in an end-of-year Senate Democrats newsletter:

“There are fewer Iowans working today than when Gov. Reynolds took office.”

By Lyle Muller • June 9, 2022
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 in Twitter:

Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."

By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 in a speech in Howell, Mich.:

"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Ralph Northam
stated on August 18, 2021 in a speech.:

The Virginia Employment Commission is sixth in the nation for getting benefits to eligible people quickly…”

By Warren Fiske • September 7, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2021 in a speech.:

When Terry McAuliffe was governor, “Unemployment went down in every single county, including rural Virginia by nearly 50%.

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2021
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 in Facebook post:

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 in a tweet:

Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”

By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020
Bill Clinton
stated on August 18, 2020 in a Democratic convention speech:

The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.

By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2020
Ron Johnson
stated on August 2, 2020 in a TV interview:

“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • August 13, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 2, 2020 in a tweet:

“34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”

By D.L. Davis • August 12, 2020
Robin Vos
stated on June 9, 2020 in Facebook post:

Wisconsin was the last state to start paying COVID-related federal unemployment benefits.

By Laura Schulte • June 30, 2020
Mun Choi
stated on February 25, 2020 in an email update:

“The facility (NextGen Precision Health Institute) construction alone will bring 3,400 jobs and $472 million in revenue to Missouri.”

By Julia Garlich • April 24, 2020
Public Citizen
stated on April 4, 2020 in a tweet:

Says 3.5 million U.S. citizens lost their employer-tied health insurance in March, while zero lost their coverage in 20 other large nations combined.

By Madeline Heim • April 16, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2020 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."

By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on February 1, 2020 in a House Special Committee hearing on Criminal Justice:

“In Boone County (Missouri) with a 1.7% unemployment rate, we can’t find enough people, we can’t fill all the job openings.”

By Sean Na • March 10, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 in a public forum:

“Very close to 160 million people are now working in the United States. Nobody's ever even come close to that number.”

By Haley BeMiller • February 7, 2020
Woody Thrasher
stated on August 21, 2019 in a tweet:

"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."

By Alayna Degenhardt • December 6, 2019
Mike Pence
stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:

"Since President (Donald Trump’s) election, 36,000 jobs have been created in WI."

By Eric Litke • November 21, 2019
Jack Salzwedel
stated on October 8, 2019 in a public forum:

"There’s more African American males in the penal system right now than there were (enslaved) at the height of slavery."

By D.L. Davis • November 1, 2019
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"Women’s unemployment has been lower under President Trump than it’s been in nearly 70 years."

By Caroline Cassedy • September 26, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on May 16, 2019 in an immigration speech:

"Only 12% of legal immigrants are selected based on skill or based on merit. In countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and others, that number is closer to 60, and even 70 and 75% in some cases."

By Miriam Valverde • May 24, 2019
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on April 2, 2019 in a tweet:

"Black women make only around 63 cents while Native American women earn 58 cents, and Hispanic women make just 54 cents in comparison to every dollar a man makes."

By Rebecca Jerome • May 16, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 in an op-ed:

"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."

By Erica Anderson • February 4, 2019
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 28, 2018 in a radio interview.:

During his governorship: "Every single city and county in Virginia, their unemployment dropped, and in most of the rural communities, it dropped more than 50 percent."

By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018
Scott Walker
stated on October 23, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says Tony Evers wants to give in-state tuition and drivers licenses to "illegal aliens."

By Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 7, 2018 in a tweet:

"Thanks to President Trump and Republicans over the past year through July, U.S. manufacturing added 327,000 jobs, the most of any 12-month period since April 1995, when the figure added a healthy 345,000 positions."

By Adrianne Uphold • September 6, 2018

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