President Joe Biden has been saying “wages are up” and rising “faster than inflation.” While weekly paychecks have indeed gotten larger since he became president, they have not kept pace with inflation.
Biden’s Wage Claims: Mostly Malarkey
Issues: wage growth
FactChecking the October Democratic Debate
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care.
Trump’s Numbers July 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Are Wages Rising or Flat?
Parsing the political claims on wages is an exercise in fun with statistics. There are several different ways to measure what’s happened to workers’ paychecks, leading to disparate and conflicting claims, and confusing messages to voters.
Video: Jake Tapper Breaks Down Debate Claims
In this week’s video, CNN’s Jake Tapper breaks down three false claims in the first of two Democratic debates on June 26.