Category:Fact Check state

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• Fact check/Are Republican state lawmakers trying to criminalize peaceful protests
• Fact check/Are thousands of families still displaced after Sandy, and are a majority from New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District
• Fact check/California's state budget and transportation infrastructure spending
• Fact check/Chris Christie "supported Common Core"
• Fact check/Connecticut public vs. private sector employee compensation
• Fact check/Did a gay rights bill backed by Indiana State Senate leader David Long include religious freedom protections
• Fact check/Did California Assemblyman Devon Mathis vote for a "$100 million health care tax"
• Fact check/Did California election officials give independent voters inconsistent and incorrect information about voting by mail
• Fact check/Did candidate for Vermont governor Matt Dunne violate a campaign fundraising pledge
• Fact check/Did Catherine Cortez Masto take 36 trips in five years while attorney general of Nevada
• Fact check/Did companies run by West Virginia Governor Democratic primary candidate Jim Justice face financial and legal issues
• Fact check/Did Delaware Senate candidate Stephanie Hansen change her position on standardized testing opt-out
• Fact check/Did Evan Jenkins support Hillary Clinton and cap-and-trade
• Fact check/Did former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland play a role in keeping paid sick leave off the ballot in 2008
• Fact check/Did Gary Johnson issue 750 vetoes as governor of New Mexico
• Fact check/Did Gov. Bruce Rauner flip-flop on abortion bill
• Fact check/Did Gov. Roy Cooper betray promises on HB 2 repeal
• Fact check/Did Indiana go from having a $2 billion surplus to a $1 billion deficit while John Gregg was Speaker of the House
• Fact check/Did Indiana Rep. Todd Young vote for "more debt and deficit spending"
• Fact check/Did John Bel Edwards vote to give "convicts" taxpayer funded pension plans
• Fact check/Did Karen Handel reduce the Georgia secretary of state's budget by 20 percent
• Fact check/Did Latrice Walker deliver almost $1 billion to her New York Assembly district
• Fact check/Did New Jersey family planning cuts increase STD rates
• Fact check/Did North Carolina teachers see the largest average pay increase in the country in 2014, and was the state ranked 42nd in the country for average teacher pay that year
• Fact check/Did Ohio lose 300,000 manufacturing jobs because of NAFTA
• Fact check/Did President Trump's executive order include "a clause making it a crime to help an undocumented immigrant"
• Fact check/Did recent bills limit North Carolina's gubernatorial powers
• Fact check/Did Rob Quist advocate for a national gun registry
• Fact check/Did Sen. Kelly Ayotte vote for cuts to Pell Grants and against refinancing student loans
• Fact check/Did South Carolina State Rep. Wendy Nanney miss more than 30 percent of votes in her current term through March 30 and more than 50 percent this year through March 30
• Fact check/Did South Carolina State Senator Wes Hayes vote to block a DOT reform bill in 2015
• Fact check/Did state budget cuts in Texas cause an increase in pregnancy-related deaths
• Fact check/Did Stockton, California, have “its lowest crime rate in the past 15 years” in 2014
• Fact check/Did Sue Minter advocate new taxes on 160 services
• Fact check/Did Ted Strickland cut spending for certain programs when he was governor of Ohio in 2009
• Fact check/Did the Nevada State Assembly vote on a “700-page bill” the same day that bill was introduced
• Fact check/Did the North Carolina legislature eliminate state supreme court oversight of the General Assembly
• Fact check/Did the North Carolina state crime lab mishandle evidence in hundreds of cases on Attorney General Roy Cooper's watch
• Fact check/Did Tony Evers fix the achievement gaps in Milwaukee and Madison schools
• Fact check/Do bag taxes induce shoppers to bring reusable bags and get rid of plastic bags
• Fact check/Do California lawmakers always support Uber and Lyft
• Fact check/Do congressional incumbents rarely face challengers and almost always win despite low approval ratings
• Fact check/Do deaths from vaccination outnumber deaths caused by measles
• Fact check/Do FBI crime statistics show increased LGBT hate crimes in North Carolina since the passage of HB2
• Fact check/Do Minnesota courts face rising caseloads
• Fact check/Do ridesharing services reduce drunk driving and related fatalities
• Fact check/Do seven people a day die of a drug overdose in Pennsylvania
• Fact check/Do West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary candidates Booth Goodwin and Jeff Kessler want to raise taxes
• Fact check/Does a ballot measure in Ohio create a marijuana monopoly
• Fact check/Does a Colorado petition signer's information go into an internet-accessible public database
• Fact check/Does a mayoral candidate in Houston have a plan to sell junk bonds
• Fact check/Does a Michigan judgeship cost taxpayers $450,000 annually
• Fact check/Does a proposed salary increase for members of the New York Legislature track that of state employees
• Fact check/Does an increase in the number of propositions on the ballot in California lead to more of those propositions being rejected by voters
• Fact check/Does California face a historic housing crisis
• Fact check/Does Chicago Public Schools receive $500 million less than their enrollment dictates
• Fact check/Does Colorado law allow payday lenders to charge over 200 interest on small loans
• Fact check/Does Ed Gillespie's tax plan include spending cuts
• Fact check/Does fracking negatively impact property values
• Fact check/Does Iowa have one of the highest effective income tax rates in the country
• Fact check/Does Louisiana have twice as many people in jail as other states
• Fact check/Does nearly 40 percent of Iowa's electricity come from wind
• Fact check/Does New Jersey lead the nation in tax burden and pension debt
• Fact check/Does Ohio Issue 2 give promoters the right to defend the law at taxpayer expense
• Fact check/Does Proposition 60 allow Californians to sue adult film performers, crew members, and television companies
• Fact check/Does Texas House candidate Thomas McNutt want to centralize control of education
• Fact check/Does Utah have a homelessness crisis
• Fact check/Does Washington State Senate candidate Manka Dhingra support a state income tax
• Fact check/Does Wisconsin's Foxconn law change environmental standards
• Fact check/Ed Gillespie on universal background checks
• Fact check/Ed Gillespie on Virginia's economy
• Fact check/Fact-checking David Vitter and John Bel Edwards on Syrian refugees in Louisiana
• Fact check/Fact-checking John Bel Edwards on David Vitter's legislative record
• Fact check/Gov. Rick Scott and Chris King on Florida's economy
• Fact check/Governor Bill Walker says Alaska's "business climate" is ranked fourth in the nation
• Fact check/Hartford's city budget and tax-exempt property
• Fact check/Has crime increased in Missouri on Attorney General Chris Koster’s watch
• Fact check/Has Indiana consistently ranked in the top 10 best states to do business
• Fact check/Has Kentucky recovered more manufacturing jobs than neighboring right-to-work states
• Fact check/Has New York state Sen. Gustavo Rivera been fighting for ethics reform since he got to Albany
• Fact check/Has public opinion changed on the medical use of marijuana
• Fact check/Has Rep. Donald Norcross “voted with the Republicans more than any other” New Jersey Democrat in the House of Representatives
• Fact check/Has state funding for classroom materials in North Carolina public schools declined
• Fact check/Has Texas Supreme Court Justice Lehrmann demonstrated hostility to tort reform
• Fact check/Has the Office of the Ohio Public Defender lost a third of its staff since 2000
• Fact check/Has the unemployment rate dropped in half during New York Governor Cuomo’s tenure
• Fact check/Have GOP lawmakers tried to shield drivers who hit protesters
• Fact check/Have non-citizens voted in recent Florida elections
• Fact check/Heath Mello's voting record on abortion
• Fact check/How much does it cost to get an initiative on the ballot in California
• Fact check/How Texas' Proposition 6 compares to other right to hunt laws in the U.S.
• Fact check/Is Citizens United responsible for outside money in North Carolina’s 2014 Senate race
• Fact check/Is distracted driving out of control in Washington state
• Fact check/Is everyone living in poverty covered by Medicaid in Wisconsin
• Fact check/Is Georgia House District 80 candidate Meagan Hanson "the only conservative" in the Republican primary
• Fact check/Is Gov. Pat McCrory's "Carolina Comeback" real
• Fact check/Is homelessness in California at a historic high
• Fact check/Is Illinois constitutionally required to have a balanced budget before the start of a fiscal year
• Fact check/Is Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner correct that many Chicago public schools are objectively inadequate
• Fact check/Is it true that Colorado House District 16 Candidate Larry Liston "claimed to be against Ref C... but voted for it"
• Fact check/Is Montana ranked 49th nationally in wages, and are millennials leaving the state seeking employment
• Fact check/Is Nebraska doing well in most economic indicators
• Fact check/Is New Mexico "at the bottom" for job growth
• Fact check/Is Oklahoma "at the bottom for education?"
• Fact check/Is Oregon secretary of state candidate Brad Avakian making campaign promises he wouldn’t “actually have the authority to” keep
• Fact check/Is Oregon seriously underfunding education
• Fact check/Is Rhode Island projected to accumulate a $300 million budget deficit by 2021, and has it lost nearly 4,000 jobs
• Fact check/Is Rhode Island routinely ranked as one of the worst states for business
• Fact check/Is staffing at Stateville Correctional Center at an all-time low
• Fact check/Is Texas Central Partners threatening to seize family farms
• Fact check/Is the American middle class at "the point of near non-existence"
• Fact check/Is the death penalty more expensive than life in prison
• Fact check/Is the New York City subway the state's responsibility
• Fact check/Is there a federal court order that would prohibit sex offenders in California from being paroled under Proposition 57
• Fact check/Is Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman in the “crosshairs” of the voting rights group iVote
• Fact check/Jimmy Gomez on paid family leave in California
• Fact check/John Kasich and the 1982 midterm elections
• Fact check/Must Georgia cities wait 20 years to sell condemned property
• Fact check/New Jersey's "tax burden"
• Fact check/Ohio Issue 2 and VA drug price availability
• Fact check/On Jim Justice's political contributions
• Fact check/On legislative salaries in the Louisiana governor's race
• Fact check/Phil Murphy and Kim Guadagno on New Jersey's economy
• Fact check/Public school funding in Texas
• Fact check/Ralph Northam on Virginia pipelines
• Fact check/Rob Portman on Ted Strickland's economic record
• Fact check/The Alaska Republican Party tags State Senate candidate Vince Beltrami as a "longtime union boss."
• Fact check/The EPA's "measurable effects"
• Fact check/Tony Evers on University of Wisconsin free speech policy
• Fact check/Voter turnout rates in Indiana
• Fact check/Was California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom right about mass shootings since Proposition 63's announcement
• Fact check/Was Kurt Schaefer the only Republican in the Missouri Legislature to vote against a bill allowing businesses to opt out of including contraception in employee health insurance plans
• Fact check/Was Sen. Josh Newman the deciding vote on California's gas tax increase
• Fact check/Was Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey NeverTrump
• Fact check/What state has the most veterans
• Fact check/Who is promoting Ohio Issue 2
• Fact check/Will CalPERS' new investment assumption lead to higher pension costs for school districts
• Fact check/Would a $33,000 salary for state legislators bring Virginia "more in line" with other states
• Fact check/Would an income tax rate cap have a negative effect on North Carolina's bond ratings
• Fact check/Would funding for the military, border security, and veterans’ services have ceased without the 2016 omnibus bill
• Fact check/Would inmates convicted of violent crimes in California be eligible for early parole under Proposition 57
• Fact check/Would Michigan sanctuary city legislation mean more duties for local governments
• Fact check/Would Missouri legislation allow discrimination, harassment, and assault
• Fact check/Would NH gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern's preferred rail project carry 2,000 a day, for $300 million
• Fact check/Would West Virginia's Amendment 1 raise taxes