Katherine Burns
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The Obameter: Lead the world in college graduates by 2020
"He set a goal to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, and cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years, a goal that will save the typical student thousands of dollars a year, and proposed bringing together community colleges and businesses to train 2 million Americans for good jobs that actually exist now and are waiting to be filled." → Read More
The Obameter: Require all schools of education to be accredited
"Will require all schools of education to be accredited." → Read More
The Obameter: Reduce energy consumption in federal buildings
"Will make the federal government a leader in the green building market, achieving a 40 percent increase in efficiency in all new federal buildings within five years and ensuring that all new federal buildings are zero-emissions by 2025. They will invest in cost-effective retrofits to achieve a 25 percent increase in efficiency of existing federal buildings within 5 years. The Obama-Biden plan… → Read More
The Truth-O-Meter scorecard for the third 2016 presidential debate
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met in the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 20, 2016. We published 16 fact-checks from that debate and cross-referenced another 20 previous fact-checks of similar statements to see how they compared on the Truth-O-Meter. See the full scorecard below followed by brief summaries of the fact-checks… → Read More
The 3rd presidential debate, annotated
PolitiFact is annotating the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. We will be posting the transcript and our annotations through the night. Follow us on Medium and check back regularly to see our commentary. → Read More
The Truth-O-Meter scorecard for the first 2016 presidential debate
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off in the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., on Sept. 26, 2016. We published 18 fact-checks from that debate and cross-referenced another 16 previous fact-checks of similar statements to see how they compared on the Truth-O-Meter. See the full scorecard below followed by brief summaries of the fact-checks that make up the… → Read More
The Truth-O-Meter scorecard for the second 2016 presidential debate
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debated for the second time on Oct. 9, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis. We fact-checked 15 claims from the debate and cross-referenced an additional 9 statements that were similar to previous fact-checks to see how the candidates compared on the Truth-O-Meter. See the full scorecard below followed by brief summaries of the fact-checks that make up the… → Read More
PolitiFact's annotated vice presidential debate
PolitiFact's writers annotated the transcript of the vice presidential debate on Medium. Read the transcript of the debate with our analysis and fact-checks by clicking here. → Read More
The first presidential debate annotated
We're annotating the first presidential debate on Medium. See the transcripts and the facts behind what the candidates said here. → Read More
John Fleming attacks IRS in inaccurate radio ad
In a recent radio campaign ad, Louisiana senate candidate John Fleming claimed that the head of the Internal Revenue Service ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could see them. → Read More
The Obameter: Cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years
"He set a goal to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, and cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years, a goal that will save the typical student thousands of dollars a year, and proposed bringing together community colleges and businesses to train 2 million Americans for good jobs that actually exist now and are waiting to be filled." → Read More
The Obameter: Reduce federal aid to colleges that don't keep costs down
"I've told Congress, let's steer federal aid to schools that are doing a good job keeping tuition affordable and provide good value and serve their students well. If you're getting federal student loans -- colleges and universities -- you shouldn't just be loading up a whole bunch of debt on your students. You've got to figure out how are you working to make sure that they can afford their… → Read More