Our top 5 fact-checks and reports for November 2014
Readers clicked on fact-checks about events in Ferguson, President Barack Obama’s actions on immigration, and "death panels."
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Depends on the measure
The poorest counties in the U.S. are in Appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
— PolitiFact Virginia
On taxin' and spendin', advantage Wisconsin
But Obama's action is more sweeping
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
— PolitiFact Virginia
Strong legislature, weak governor
Rhode Island's legislature is "the strongest in the country."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
Right on both counts
Wisconsin is below the national average in wage growth and job growth.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
Evidence lacking
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
— PolitiFact Texas
It's actually lower
"Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi."
— PolitiFact Rhode Island
A statistic that doesn't exist
"The conviction rate is almost exactly the same" for whites and blacks who commit murder.
— PunditFact
Whites tend to kill whites as well
Numbers are right, but comparison imperfect
Police rarely charged regardless of race
Says "99 percent of the time police officers aren't charged when they kill young people of color."
— PunditFact
One reason: artificial insemination
"Turkeys today weigh 29.8 pounds. In the ‘30s, they weighed 13.2 pounds."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
UPDATED: If you use the highest estimate
A fake created on a "Church Sign Maker" website
Raw numbers not the best measurement
All presidents acted, but few so sweepingly
Exit polls say otherwise
From 'I'm not a king' to 'obliged to do everything I can'
American refineries will be the primary buyers
