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Fact-checking Trump’s speech to Congress: Trump takes credit he hasn’t earned

Calvin Woodward, Christopher S. Rugaber
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, file photo, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange. While Wall Street celebrates yet another stock market record, surpassing 20,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, most of America has little reason to cheer. The wealthiest one-tenth of Americans owns 80 percent of stock market wealth. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Not helping the little man: For most Americans, Dow 20,000 carries little benefit

Christopher S. Rugaber
President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP)

Thanks, Obama: Employers add solid 161,000 jobs, as wages up by most since ’09

Christopher S. Rugaber
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets the crowd after speaking at Joni's Roast and Ride at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP)

Same old party line: Donald Trump’s tax plan is like every other Republican plan

Christopher S. Rugaber, Nicholas Riccardi