“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”
Joe Biden
president. a press conference. Claim dated 2 Nov 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Wages have risen faster than inflation in August and September, but not for Biden’s presidency as a whole.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 2 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 November 2021, 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.
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