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Jill Billings stated on November 14, 2023 in Assembly floor speech:

“With school-based professional social workers, the recommendation is 400-to-1, and in Wisconsin, we’re almost triple that.”

By Tyler Katzenberger • December 13, 2023

Gretchen Whitmer stated on June 2, 2022 in a tweet:

“Since I took office, Michigan has added more than 25,000 auto jobs.”

By Clara Hendrickson • July 1, 2022

Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.:

The number of illegal immigrants "could be 3 million. It could be 30 million."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 1, 2016

Republican Party of Florida stated on April 2, 2014 in a tweet:

Charlie Crist "raised taxes in 2009 and won't rule out raising taxes again."

By Amy Sherman • April 8, 2014

Barack Obama stated on September 20, 2010 in a town hall meeting:

"There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2010

Mitt Romney stated on January 28, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Fla.:

"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.

By Robert Farley • January 28, 2008

Steve LaTourette stated on March 4, 2011 in a newspaper interview:

"If you look at the jobs lost in the private sector as opposed to the job gains in the public sector, it's out of whack. The government's growing and the private economy's shrinking."

By Tom Feran • March 21, 2011

Fentrice Driskell stated on March 7, 2023 in a press conference:

"$1 of every $3 (Ron DeSantis) spends comes from the federal government."

By Yacob Reyes • March 9, 2023

Donald Trump stated on May 5, 2020 in an interview on ABC:

Models projecting COVID-19 deaths “are talking about without mitigation.”

By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2020

Eileen Filler-Corn stated on January 15, 2019 in a floor speech.:

"There is no tax increase in the governor’s budget plan."

By Warren Fiske • January 29, 2019

Bruce Rauner stated on January 29, 2018 in a session with Chicago Tribune editorial board:

"I have introduced balanced budgets every year that I’ve been governor."

By Brett Chase, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2018

Donald Trump stated on October 11, 2017 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:

The Obama administration "borrowed more than $10 trillion, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market. ... Maybe in a sense we’re reducing debt."

By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2017

Gina Raimondo stated on February 19, 2015 in a news conference:

"Contrary to popular belief, we actually don’t have that many public employees…We are well below average in the number of public employees.’’

By Katie Mulvaney • March 8, 2015

Greg Abbott stated on February 17, 2014 in his State of the State address:

"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 20, 2015

Ron Johnson stated on May 28, 2014 in statement at a town hall meeting:

"Kids coming from an affluent background" are "taking advantage of all these student loan programs and grants" while many middle-class families with no connection to college are picking up the tab.

By Devon Waugh • August 13, 2014

Patricia Morgan stated on July 2, 2013 in a speech on the House floor.:

In Rhode Island, 9 percent of workers use the state's temporary disability insurance program each year while in New Jersey, the rate is only 3 percent.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 14, 2013

Jim Renacci stated on April 5, 2012 in a campaign email:

"Since President Obama took office, our federal spending has increased by nearly 30 percent and our national debt has increased by almost 50 percent."

By Sabrina Eaton • April 13, 2012

Matt Wingard stated on January 2, 2012 in a news story online:

"Oregon’s per capita income is 9 percent below the national average and getting worse. This is a state that’s actually getting poorer."

By Janie Har • January 6, 2012

John Cornyn stated on July 7, 2011 in a Senate floor speech:

"Fifty-one percent -- that is, a majority of American households -- paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada."

By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2011

Stefani Carter stated on February 16, 2011:

Says the Beaumont school district’s superintendent is the highest-paid in the state.

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 11, 2011

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What the HBO QAnon documentary series revealed about the identity of ‘Q’

By Samantha Putterman • April 9, 2021

Why sleep experts say permanent daylight saving time is a bad idea

By Grace Abels • July 21, 2026

A family budget is often invoked in U.S. debt fights. Just how similar is it to a federal budget?

By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2023

46 minutes of falsehoods: Trump rehashes baseless election claims in White House video

By Bill McCarthy • December 3, 2020

Who is Marianne Williamson? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate

By Julianna Rennie • June 11, 2019

Superintendents’ pay means salary — plus perks

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 14, 2011

Case study: How Facebook pages exploit Russia’s war in Ukraine with false videos

By Grace Abels • July 27, 2022

Mailbag: The Uvalde shooting and gun control, Roe v. Wade, open borders, and more

By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2022

Who is Robert Malone? Joe Rogan’s guest was a vaccine scientist, became an anti-vaccine darling

By Bill McCarthy • January 6, 2022

Rumors surrounding John McAfee’s death linked to QAnon conspiracy

By Madison Czopek • June 25, 2021

Filter bubbles be gone! SmartNews and PolitiFact team up to get news consumers the facts

By Josie Hollingsworth • May 12, 2021

False vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why

By Daniel Funke • March 30, 2021

Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol assault: Comparing the police response

By Jon Greenberg, Noah Y. Kim • January 8, 2021

Fact-checking the fact-challenged candidates for Illinois governor

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 4, 2018

Rauner, Pritzker shun transparency even when it might help

By Bob Secter, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 22, 2018

In context: Bill Clinton’s remarks on health care

By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2016

In Context: Scott Walker, Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre

By Tom Kertscher • April 11, 2016

The most interesting reactions to the 2013 Lie of the Year

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Becky Bowers • December 18, 2013

PolitiFact’s guide to sequestration

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • February 22, 2013