“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”
What PolitiFact found
Census data shows that New York’s population declined by 1.58% between July 2020 and July 2021, which is the latest population estimate available. That was the largest percentage loss of any state.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lee Zeldin (Gubernatorial candidate, R-N.Y.) made this claim around 12 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 May 2022, 24 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Lee Zeldin has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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