“Florida state government (has the) lowest number of state employees per capita in the country.”
Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor. Claim dated 18 Jan 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Florida has the smallest ratio of state government employees to population of any state. But the numbers change modestly when local government workers are factored in
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor) made this claim around 18 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 January 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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