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Economy & business fact checks

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

7,106 published reviews in this topic

Washington PostEconomy & business

“Biden has just declared that if he gets four more years, he will drench the middle class in the largest tax increases in the history of our country."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

BBC News reported that British residents “no longer need to work” thanks to an investment project from Elon Musk.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“The White House is now trying to protect Joe Biden by changing the definition of the word recession.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Walmart has announced starting June 3rd all locations in the U.S. will go back to 24hrs.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostEconomy & business

"We didn’t sell any land to the Chinese. But, yes, I recruited a fiberglass company.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Agriculture “is still the No. 1 sector of the economy” in Georgia.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says minimum markup law goes beyond gas, tobacco and alcohol to make "many doorbuster deals and holiday shopping specials technically against the law."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says the large trade deficit with Japan stems from them sending "millions of cars," while "we send them wheat," but the deficit is "changing rapidly."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

AAP FactCheckEconomy & business

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet claims NSW contributes the most in GST and income tax, only for it to be "doled out” to other states.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True - Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

“We will frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill. ... I will cut your energy prices in half within 12 months."

Publisher’s rating: Experts Doubt That

Facebook postsEconomy & business

The FDA will now require sealed ice cream cartons in response to the Blue Bell ice cream licker, thus driving up the cost for consumers.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Some individuals or businesses in Wisconsin are charging $2 or $2.25 an hour for child care.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Gas cost $9 a gallon in California in early March 2022.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Walmart is giving some women $500 grocery store credit as part of a discrimination settlement.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.”

Publisher’s rating: True

Washington PostEconomy & business

“There’s noncompete clauses of people running the machines that lay down asphalt. If, in fact, you get offered a job and you know, you’re in Arkansas doing it, a specific example is you can’t take a job in west Texas to do it. ... … Or there were clauses in McDonald’s contracts: You can’t leave Burger King to go to McDonald’s."

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“2022 was the biggest tourism year ever in West Virginia”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says President Donald Trump "thinks that $15 an hour minimum wage is too much for essential workers."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Maldita.esEconomy & business

Vídeo de la nueva ministra de Economía de Venezuela pidiendo una "ayudaíta" cuando le preguntan sobre la inflación en una entrevista.

Publisher’s rating: Falso