Our top 5 fact-checks and reports for October 2014
We look back at last month’s most popular fact-checks and reports. Topics include Ebola, the Republican platform and Elizabeth Warren.
The Latest from PolitiFact
2014 midterm election spending by "the left and the right are both equal."
— PunditFact
"More people are losing their insurance (due to Obamacare) than are becoming newly insured."
— PunditFact
"25,000 businesses have been created since (Scott) Walker took office."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
"We have the third-lowest minimum wage … of developed countries."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
Says U.S. Senate candidate Michelle Nunn was "handpicked" by President Barack Obama
— PolitiFact Georgia
Says Scott Brown "voted to reward" companies "to ship jobs overseas."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire
Says Rick Scott "spent $800,000 of your tax dollars upgrading the Governor's Mansion."
— PolitiFact Florida
As a result of Obamacare, "California seniors face benefit cuts of over $1,700."
Gina Raimondo "paid 70 million in taxpayer dollars to millionaire hedge fund managers."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island