Our latest fact-checks

The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.  

Middle-class Americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."

Federal officials declared that grant funds "could be used only for Milwaukee's streetcar project," meaning it "isn’t possible" to redirect the money to "other modes of public transportation or to our public schools."

On Common Core education standards

Polls on legalizing same-sex marriage "are not dramatically changing."

The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley."

Milwaukee "incarcerates 1.2% of white men" and has "incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s."

Says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans "for recent economic improvements" even though they took control of the Senate only "days ago."  

The Milwaukee Bucks are "actually younger than the Marquette team."

"The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money."

Under the "cromnibus" law, taxpayers must guarantee "incredibly risky" derivatives deals made by the nation's largest banks.  

Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."

"My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state."

"Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan."

"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin. 

On timing of right to work legislation

At the 50 Milwaukee schools serving "at least 80% African-American and at least 80% low income" students, the reading proficiency is 8%.

"We've had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare."  

"We’re borrowing 20% of (the federal) budget."

"Wisconsin’s state budget is almost twice as large per person as the state budget of Texas, and even after billions in tax cuts, Wisconsin’s working families and businesses remain subject to a heavy tax burden."