“Kenyans being arrested for mobile loan arrears with mobile money lenders Tala, Branch and Fuliza”
Africa Check rated this: False
Economy and jobs
1,152 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and we're about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs and on and on through the economy.”
PolitiFact rated this: not the only reason
“Five years ago, when I took office, our state was mired in debt - a $2.4 billion debt left over by Republicans.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“A group of 500 beggars from Bihar have entered Odisha and are killing people for organ trade.”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“A claim that Gombe State’s debt is N110 billion”
DUBAWA rated this: False, Gombe state does not owe N110 billion
“You name it, everything is going up except your wages”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Doesn't stack up
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: The Australian Bureau of Statistics' measure of wages, the wage price index, has not fallen under the Coalition, though it is sluggish. Experts contacted by Fact Check took issue with Mr Shorten's claim, as the WPI has …
“We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“German government has lowered the raised fuel prices, as its people abandoned their cars on road as a mark of protest.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Kenya’s unemployment rate “currently staggers above 39.1%.”
Africa Check rated this: Incorrect
“Claim small scale industry of counterfeit Indian currency in Pakistan”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Fact Crescendo Rating FALSE
“Nearly 1 in 4 people in poverty works full-time.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Overblown
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Bandt's claim is overblown. The source of his claim, the Poverty in Australia 2016 report, suggested that one in five people in poverty lived in a household where the reference person (as identified by the Australian…
“Trump's budget calls for "a $1.5 trillion cut in Medicaid over a 10-year period, $800 billion cut in Medicare, and billions in Social Security.”
The New York Times rated this: This is exaggerated.
“Need to have Huduma Number if you need Stawi loan”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“Claim: Fake currency printing video in Pakistan”
Fact Crescendo rated this: FALSE
“Tala and Branch databases hacked in Kenya to clear loan defaulter names”
Africa Check rated this: Fake
“Safaricom’s Fuliza loan servers hacked to clear M-Pesa debt in Kenya”
Africa Check rated this: Fake
“Claim: BJP Govt rejecting Tamilians in Railway jobs”
Fact Crescendo rated this: MIXTURE
“General Motors "got $192 million in tax breaks" and "did nothing" for laid off workers.”
The New York Times rated this: False.
“There's a million Australians doing two jobs and there's a million Australians who are underemployed.”
RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Correct
RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Shorten is correct. Both claims — that a million Australians are underemployed and a million Australians are working two jobs — check out according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. However, as one expert t…
“We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history.”
FactStream rated this: False