“Since Biden took office ... real wages have fallen monthly.”
What PolitiFact found
Inflation has outpaced wages for most of Biden’s tenure in office. Wages did outpace inflation for Biden’s first three months, as well as over the past four months, as inflation has receded.
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In short
West Virginia Republican Party (party organization) made this claim around 17 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 October 2023, 56 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
West Virginia Republican Party has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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