A tiny bit more diverse
"We invite SNL viewers to Vermont to see all that we have to offer, including our increasingly diverse communities... The leaves are changing and so is Vermont."
— PolitiFact Vermont on Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
Generally on target, but 'chain' misleading
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, February 2nd, 2018
It was falling for years before Trump
"Because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Terminology matters
"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, January 18th, 2018
Right about stops, off-base on searches
"African Americans in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be stopped and searched by law enforcement officers than caucasians."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Monday, September 18th, 2017
Ignores incidents other than bomb threats
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."
— PunditFact on Monday, May 22nd, 2017
23 years ago
Says Donald Trump "says organized crime runs wild on reservations."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, November 4th, 2016
It's improved, but still high
"Nearly half of African-American children under the age of 6 are living in abject poverty."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 28th, 2016
'Some,' not 'many'
Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
Not by the official statistics
"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
The games are back
Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Not a crime by itself
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
— PunditFact on Thursday, June 18th, 2015
He has a point, but it's more nuanced than he says
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, May 15th, 2015
Words matter, as how people interpret them
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, March 29th, 2015
There's a big racial gap, but not as big as he says
Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The data is more mixed
Hispanic students in Florida perform "the best" of any Hispanic population in the United States.
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
"All" is too strong
"There are 278 Republicans in Congress. (With Eric Cantor's defeat), they are now all Christian and all white except for one black senator, who was appointed."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Picking a grad rate stat is like "all of the above" on multiple choice exam
Florida’s "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates."
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, August 23rd, 2013
Wrong year, mayor
Says 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority."
— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, February 17th, 2013
Secular term goes too far
"Secular Americans are the fastest-growing religious identification demographic in this country."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, November 18th, 2012