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Economy & business fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about economy & business. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

7,104 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“You must apply to get your second stimulus check! I’ve already filed for mine and will be receiving $2,000 a month for the rest of the year.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

“Exports are up, which means we’re making things here in America and shipping the products overseas rather than shipping the jobs overseas."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Washington PostEconomy & business

“We’re actually taking in more revenue now than we did when we had the higher taxes because the economy’s doing so well.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

Bill de BlasioEconomy & business

"We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

If Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "had passed his (gas) tax increases ... fuel prices would be at least a dime higher.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

Collecting a stimulus payment means, "[n]ext year, you’re automatically going to owe $1,200 come tax season."

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esEconomy & business

Personas hacen cola para solicitar el Ingreso Minimo Vital

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"Joe Biden is proposing that any family who tries to pass a business or a farm down to their son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter are going to pay a huge new tax."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PesaCheckEconomy & business

G4S is having a mass recruiting in every county

Publisher’s rating: False.

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"[M]ost of the conservative think tanks," including the Heritage Foundation, say the Republican tax cuts "generated virtually no growth at all."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a ‘Federal Benefit Payment.’”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"[And] we created opportunity zones, along with Tim Scott. And since then, countless jobs and $100 billion dollars of new investment have poured into 9,000 of our most distressed neighborhoods in the country."

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

Washington PostEconomy & business

"The Keystone pipeline was scheduled to have more than 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 union jobs, for contracts worth $1.6 billion.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

Maldita.esEconomy & business

Vueling promociona 35.000 plazas de avión gratis.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"When I was here the first time around in 1980 as the president, 70% of our budget came from the state. About 12 or 13(%) comes from the state now."

Publisher’s rating: Didn't provide any backup