“If we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now.”
What PolitiFact found
The White House acknowledged that Biden had intended to say that if the minimum wage had been indexed to worker productivity, it would be at $20 an hour today.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 16 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 February 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
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