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Economy & business fact checks
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Maldita.esEconomy & business
Mensaje del Imserso para gestionar la devolución del dinero abonado para los viajes suspendidos
Publisher’s rating: Falso
FactCheck.orgEconomy & business
The U.S. is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactEconomy & business
“We have more oil and gas permits than ever before right now.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactEconomy & business
“There's over a trillion dollars of money unspent from previous (coronavirus) relief bills ... still sitting in a bank account.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
Washington PostEconomy & business
“Under the previous administration, the federal government contracts awarded directly to foreign companies went up 30 percent."
Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios
PolitiFactEconomy & business
Walmart is “kidnapping kids” and selling them, and this can be proven by searching “girls shoes $5,000” on Walmart.com.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
FactCheck.orgEconomy & business
"If Biden gets in... we can all say goodbye to these unbelievably good gas prices. Don't forget the nearly $5 per gallon we were paying under O'Biden."
Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts
PolitiFactEconomy & business
“This country’s working people actually got a raise.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactEconomy & business
"Women’s unemployment has been lower under President Trump than it’s been in nearly 70 years."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
PolitiFactEconomy & business
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
FactCheck.orgEconomy & business
"We've created more than 12 million new jobs, more jobs in two years than any president created in a four-year term."
Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts
FactCheck.orgEconomy & business
The Biden administration is "orchestrating more shortages" by stopping cargo ships from unloading at U.S. ports.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactEconomy & business
“Very few … if any” states have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactEconomy & business
"Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation."
Publisher’s rating: Half True
Washington PostEconomy & business
“The chief actuary of the Social Security Administration just released an analysis of Trump’s planned cuts to Social Security. Under Trump’s plan, Social Security would become permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023."
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
