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True

Wages are up

Sanders

Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Mostly False

Throw this one back

Warren

Elizabeth Warren

"Roughly one in four fish eaten in the United States was caught here and sent to Asia for processing before being re-imported for American consumers."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, December 13th, 2019

False

Solar jobs are growing, but haven't overtaken oil

Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"In Bakersfield, where there’s a lot of oil drilling going on, there’s more solar jobs now in Bakersfield and around that area than there are oil jobs."

— PolitiFact California on Friday, December 6th, 2019

Mostly True

Study cited is credible

Thrasher

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

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, December 6th, 2019

False

Plant open since 2013

Trump

"Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, November 21st, 2019