“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.”
What PolitiFact found
For his entire term, inflation has outpaced wages. But wages have outpaced inflation compared to right before the pandemic, and for the past year and the past two years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 4 June 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 June 2024, 2 days 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.
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