Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers | History News

Dr. Lawrence Wittner  is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of  Confronting the Bomb  (Stanford University Press).

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Campaigning for the presidency in 2016,  Donald Trump promised  that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.”   

Meanwhile, although  Trump bragged  in June 2019 that the wages of American workers “are rising at the fastest rate in many decades,” this claim is far from the truth.  In fact,  wages rose faster  only a few years before, under his predecessor.  Furthermore, an examination of what economists call “real wages”―wages offset by inflation―reveals that they have remained remarkably stagnant during the Trump era.  As the U.S.

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