Facts Are Stubborn Things
According to data from the Department of Labor, the U.S. has spent an estimated $26.0 billion in error on Federal…
Read More (Recent Erroneous Extended UI Benefits Almost Match All Extended Benefits Paid after 2001 Recession and Terrorist Attacks)The Federal Extended Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired in December, after providing record amounts of financial assistance to over 24…
Read More (EUC History Lesson)“Economists say there is absolutely no evidence that part time work is going up. In fact, it’s going down. The…
Read More (Is Part-Time Work “Going Down,” as Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius Says?)Over the weekend, Minority Leader Pelosi (D-CA) made the false claim that there is not a single area where Congress…
Read More (Fact Check Pelosi: “There’s No More Cuts to Make”)In a June 2013 response to the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS identified 65 million documents potentially responsive to…
Read More (IRS: It Wasn’t Less Than 1%, It Was 3%!)Tea Party Progressives On a BOLO Yes Yes Had donors threatened Yes No evidence Had confidential information leaked Yes…
Read More (Being on a BOLO is Different than Being Targeted and Abused by the IRS)Throughout the investigation into the IRS targeting conservative groups, many misleading statements have been made asserting that the uptick of…
Read More (Fact Check: Uptick Came After Targeting Began)While President Obama prepares for his second inauguration next week, many Americans are hoping that the next four years aren’t…
Read More (Four Years Later)Fiction “Building on the $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction he has already signed, President Obama is committed to continuing to cut…
Read More (Debt Has Grown by $5 Trillion in Four Years, Despite Obama’s Being “Committed to Continuing to Cut Our Deficit”)Yesterday, the White House joined a chorus of leading Democrats who refuse to reform Social Security and protect benefits for…
Read More (Democrats’ Denial over Social Security)