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Tag Archives: economy
Super PAC Polishes Huntsman’s Resume
A super PAC backing Jon Huntsman for president makes three misleading or false claims in a TV ad now running in New Hampshire: The group, which calls itself Our Destiny, suggests President Obama is to blame for a volatile stock market — saying “the stock market is a wreck,” even …
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Tagged economy, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Our Destiny, President Obama, Rick Perry
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Texas-Size Recovery
Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has boasted of significant job growth in his state in the past few years. And for good reason: It’s true. While Texas clearly hasn’t avoided the recession, the state has done well in terms of …
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Romney’s Economic Exaggerations
Mitt Romney mistakenly claimed the U.S. is experiencing "the worst recovery … in America's history," citing the Wall Street Journal. But the newspaper article said it was "the worst, or one of the worst, since the government started tracking these trends after World War II." That obviously does not include …
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Reid Wrong on Jobs, Tea Party
On NBC’s "Meet the Press," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid exaggerated the latest job gains in the manufacturing sector and grossly minimized tea party victories in the 2010 midterm elections. In the interview — which NBC taped a day before the Jan. 8 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others …
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Tagged Ann Marie Buerkle, Blake Farenthold, economy, Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Reid, jobs, Joe Walsh, Sharron Angle, Tea Party
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Sunday Replay
All of the misstatements that crept into the Sunday shows this weekend (at least, all the ones we found) had to do with the economy, the topic that is most on voters’ minds as the midterm elections approach. Beware the Third Rail White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod made an …
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Tagged Austan Goolsbee, David Axelrod, economy, jobs, John Boehner, Steny Hoyer, sunday talk shows
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Abortion and Jobs Numbers
In episode 6 of our podcast, we explain the controversy over abortion and federal funds in the health care law, unemployment statistics touted by the White House, and a long-running April Fools’ hoax. (Click the play button below to listen to the podcast. Or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.) …
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Optimistic Job Stats
Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, talked jobs with NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory on Sunday. The interview came a few days after the release of encouraging numbers — employment rose by 162,000 in March, the biggest one-month increase in three years. A …
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Tagged Christina Romer, economy, health care, jobs, meet the press, stimulus, unemployment
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Ad Serves Up a Dose of Exaggeration
The Washington Post reported on March 9 that Employers for a Healthy Economy, a coalition of business groups that includes the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, plans to spend up to $10 million running an ad about the effects of health care legislation on the …
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Tagged chamber of commerce, economy, employers for a healthy economy, health care, health insurance, jobs
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