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Americans spend the most on health care, get worst outcomes?
Data not as conclusive
"Nearly half of public school teachers in Texas are working a second or a third job, not for kicks, not for extra spending cash, but just to make ends meet."
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
For jails, not prisons
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Largely consistent record, but...
On tax increases.
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Your safest bet? Put the phone down
Florida drivers who have their cell phones "in hand" can be ticketed $250 and sent to "driving school."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, March 18th, 2019
Comparing U.S. to other developed nations
"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, March 18th, 2019
That's not the official count
Says that "despite the tremendous amounts of money that have gone into it, only 400 family (housing) units have been created" in the last 12 years through Chicago’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance.
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, March 17th, 2019
Context needed
Says the University of Missouri "has been cleared of involvement" in academic fraud involving student athletes.
— PolitiFact Missouri on Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Could be true, but he can't prove it.
I received "more votes from young people — black, white, Latino, Asian American and Native American — than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined."
— PolitiFact Vermont on Friday, March 15th, 2019
A whale of a difference
"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 15th, 2019
It doesn't even look like him
A photograph shows Beto O’Rourke nearly nude with the words "feminist," "atheist" and "slut" on his body.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, March 15th, 2019
His Royal Badness wasn't a hidden force behind Nike success
Says Prince invested in Nike in 1971, recruited Michael Jordan to the company in 1983 and designed the first Air Jordans.
Republicans voted for the new election, too
"Democrats have forced a special election"
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, March 15th, 2019
Estimates vary
The sports betting bill would create "$12.5 million to $30.9 million in additional revenue for the state"
— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Street hecklers were right
Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 14th, 2019
Depends on definition of "kitchen"
"The schools in my district don't have a kitchen."
It's unlikely he's a billionaire
Says Beto O'Rourke's "father-in-law, a billionaire real estate developer who bankrolled a Super PAC to buy Beto a congressional seat…"
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, March 14th, 2019
O'Rourke tried to flee, was unsuccessful
Says Beto O’Rourke crashed into barriers, "causing a collision while driving drunk, then fleeing the scene to avoid accountability."
Wasn't referring to all women
Says Beto O’Rourke perpetuated stereotypes, "casting aspersions on working women whose ‘only qualifications seemed to be large breasts and tight buttocks’."
O'Rourke abstained from key votes
Says Beto O’Rourke did his father-in-law’s "bidding on the El Paso City Council, pushing a downtown redevelopment scheme to bulldoze a poor Hispanic neighborhood while enriching developers like his father-in-law."
Facts still back up this grim stat
California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size of the next largest state: Florida."
— PolitiFact California on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019