“This country’s working people actually got a raise.”
Joe Biden
President of the United States. Said during a news conference at the White House.. Claim dated 20 Jan 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Wages have gone up 4.7% but in the same time, inflation rose 7%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 20 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 January 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/19/remarks-by-president…
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