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"Jim Justice is the first West Virginia governor to fight for pay raises for educators."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

Says a new annual report shows that "West Virginia’s tourism industry has grown for the second consecutive year, reversing years of decline and outpacing national growth by 58 percent."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

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

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

"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."

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

China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

"One in eight American adults, or 12.7 percent of the U.S population, now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, November 19th, 2019

"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Monday, November 18th, 2019

"On average, one person dies by suicide every 22 hours in West Virginia."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, November 8th, 2019

Murray Energy is "the largest coal company in the United States."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, November 8th, 2019

"75-100 folks (are) killed a month and over 200 wounded by senseless gun violence."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, October 17th, 2019

"West Virginia Department of Education reported over 10,000 children and youth have been identified as homeless for the 2018-2019 school year."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, October 11th, 2019

"About 95 percent of America’s production of ethylene is produced on the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, October 10th, 2019

"A study shows that households neighboring West Virginia could be on the hook for upwards of $70,000 in the first year alone under the Green New Deal!"

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

Says in the 2016 presidential election, "I won that one by 42 points -- 42 points -- West Virginia."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

"Our WV highways rank 16th in the country in a national survey of highway systems, up 20 spots from last year’s ranking! This ranking affirms all the hard work we’ve done, and that we continue to do, fixing our state’s roads."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019

The United States is "#1 in oil consumption" in the world.

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019

"Women’s unemployment has been lower under President Trump than it’s been in nearly 70 years."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, September 26th, 2019

"There are 1,600 new coal-fired power plants being constructed as I speak around the world."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, September 20th, 2019

"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, July 18th, 2019

"When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, May 17th, 2019