“Even after accounting for rising prices, the typical American family has more money in their pockets than they did last year.”
What PolitiFact found
The standard metric used for this purpose — per capita, inflation-adjusted personal disposable income — has risen steadily since before the pandemic hit.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 3 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 December 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/12/03/remarks-by-president…
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