Our latest fact-checks

 "Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement than the youth at Lincoln Hills."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 18th, 2017

"Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017

On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 11th, 2017

Says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, August 10th, 2017

"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

"You have almost half the counties in America that have one provider or no provider for insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges.  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 4th, 2017

Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

Says Dontre Hamilton "was shot 14 times by police for resting on a park bench in Milwaukee."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 27th, 2017

Republicans have " won a thousand seats since Obamacare."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 27th, 2017

"More than 15,000 transgender Americans" are "serving in the military today."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Wisconsin is "dead-last in creating new businesses" for "three years in a row."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Says Paul Ryan "has not had a public town hall within the district for over 600 days."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 21st, 2017

"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 20th, 2017

"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 19th, 2017

Says Tom Barrett "has directed that tens of millions of City of Milwaukee tax dollars be used for the construction of a downtown trolley at the expense of: health and public safety; repair and replacement of public infrastructure; public education; and, job creation and economic development."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 14th, 2017

"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 13th, 2017

Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 12th, 2017

"There are so many data that demonstrate that poor people, surprisingly, are less likely to use drugs than people with means."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 7th, 2017