More like four weeks
"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, January 25th, 2016
Not as dramatic as he makes it out to be
"Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards."
— PolitiFact National on Saturday, December 19th, 2015
Taking the long view
"If we pass immigration reform, it will make wages go up on average $250 for the average household."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, November 20th, 2015
In line with general trends
"Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me."
— PolitiFact National on Saturday, November 14th, 2015
He liked the idea
"When President Obama was running for re-election … Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
Clinton says her own plan is better
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Studies, experts agree
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
No in-house mammograms
"97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 3rd, 2015
On Clinton, yes; Bush is less clear
"The CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
It's not unprecedented since WWII
"Today in America, 70 percent of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago, and this is the first time that that has happened this side of World War II."
Conflating two related, but separate, votes
"We're not allowed to read it (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) before representatives vote on it."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
It's moved sideways more than down
In the United States, we’ve had "12 years in a row of wages declining."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Romney's vague plans include tax cuts across the board
Says Mitt Romney has put forward a plan "that would cut taxes for millionaires while raising them for the middle class."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Only true for state government
"When it comes to what little bit of job creation was happening in Massachusetts (when Mitt Romney was governor), it was happening in the public sector at six times the rate that it was happening in the private sector."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Most stats put the states neck and neck
Maryland is "creating jobs at 2 ½ times the rate that Virginia is."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 13th, 2012
Rate is higher than average, but not in the top 10
Chris Christie has not been "effective at creating jobs … (or have) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... New Jersey (has) one of the higher unemployment rates in the country at 9.4 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 3rd, 2011
True for 2010, but why stop counting there?
"When it comes to being effective at creating jobs … (Chris Christie has not had) a record of governing for effectiveness. ... Last year, New Jersey created no net new jobs."
The most ... out of 35 states
Says Rick Perry of Texas was "the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his state’s budget deficit in 2010."
— PolitiFact Texas on Saturday, June 25th, 2011