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Statements about Economy
Lou Greenwald

Lou Greenwald

Mostly True

High job growth, low pay

"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

False

It's households, not families

"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."

Rick Scott

Rick Scott

Half-True

A bad time to govern

Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.

Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich

True

More than a quarter remain underwater

"Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes."

Pew Environment Group

Pew Environment Group

Mostly False

30 years ago is "recent"?

"In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent."

John Kasich

John Kasich

True

Industry has a high yield

Agriculture "is the strongest industry in Ohio."

Lincoln Chafee

Lincoln Chafee

True

A sign of things to come?

"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."

Anne Goodman

Anne Goodman

True

This claim served with accuracy

Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.

John Kitzhaber

John Kitzhaber

True

He's right -- though you may not feel it

Says that in 2011, Oregon had "the second fastest growing economy in the nation."

Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi

False

Penalties don't start until 2014

"National studies are already showing the negative effects that the health care law is having on businesses and our economy. Businesses across the country are raising their prices … (or) cutting jobs as a result of the added cost."

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

True

Green industries are a gusher for U.S. jobs

"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  

Jobs Ohio

Jobs Ohio

True

Out pacing some larger states

"In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country."

Ron Johnson

Ron Johnson

Half-True

Cratered might be a better way of describing it

Says President Barack Obama "did not come into office with the economy in a free fall."

Rob Portman

Rob Portman

True

Some rhetorical flair, but still on point

Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  "take us into a recession and kill jobs."

People's Majority

People's Majority

Pants on Fire!

Super PAC has zero evidence

"Sheldon Whitehouse [got] a secret closed-door briefing, warning of the [2008 economic] crash."

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

False

Tweet, later corrected, exaggerated in both directions

Says during George W. Bush’s administration "we were losing millions of jobs per month," while under Barack Obama we have "three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month."

Michael McCaul

Michael McCaul

Mostly True

Other nations’ rates fell

Says U.S. corporate tax rate is "highest in the world at 35 percent."

Barry Hinckley

Barry Hinckley

Pants on Fire!

The tax is Obamacare. And the rich pay most. Over 10 years

Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a "$525-billion tax increase on the middle class."

Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown

True

Claim is good ore, despite campaign lore

"There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs."

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Half-True

Less than 10% from China

"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."

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