“Take home pay for workers is going up.”
What PolitiFact found
Wages have outpaced inflation for the past two quarters. However, that increase is only beginning to compensate for the wages that were eaten away by inflation earlier in Biden’s presidency.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 12 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 January 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half 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/2023/01/12/remarks-by-president…
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