You may loathe President Trump on a personal level, but there’s no question that his economy is benefiting the masses, and everyday people know it. Yet that’s either news to Bernie Sanders, or he’s still so willfully ignorant that he can’t face simple facts.
At Tuesday’s Democratic debate in South Carolina, the 2020 front-runner claimed the real wages of “average” or “ordinary” workers increased by less than 1% last year. This makes sense if you’re looking at the literal averages of hourly earnings, but that’s because lower-income earners received the disproportionate amount of real wage gains in 2019. Real median hourly wages increased by 1% overall last year, with low-earning males and middle-earning women seeing the highest wage gains. From 2018 to 2019, median women’s wages increased by a staggering 3.5%.
