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“In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”
Ron DeSantis GOP presidential candidate. a CNN town hall. Claim dated 5 Jan 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True

What PolitiFact found

Income growth is measurable in several ways, and using some of those statistics, Florida performs well compared with its peers. The one statistic that puts Florida No. 1 is wages, a narrower category than "income."

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In short

Ron DeSantis (GOP presidential candidate) made this claim around 5 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 January 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “Half 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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