{"id":1975230,"date":"2023-07-17T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-brags-about-americans-real-wages-twitters-community-notes-levels-him\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:44:20","slug":"biden-brags-about-americans-real-wages-twitters-community-notes-levels-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-brags-about-americans-real-wages-twitters-community-notes-levels-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden boasts about US wages, Twitter community disagrees."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-brags-about-americans-real-wages-twitters-community-notes-levels-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Biden&#8217;s\u2062 Bogus \u200dBoast \u200con Real\u2063 Wages\u200d Earns\u2063 Swift \u2062Rebuke<\/h2>\n<p>In an \u2063attempt to\u2062 blow \u200dhis horn, President Joe\u2062 Biden \u2063claimed\u2063 that Americans&#8217; \u2064real\u2064 wages are\u2064 higher than before the \u2064pandemic. \u2064However, his \u2064boast\u2062 was\u200b quickly\u2064 debunked by Twitter&#8217;s\u200b Community Notes, earning him a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-76-of-141-republican-representatives-in-pa-send-letter-to-congress-asking-them-to-reject-states-20-electors\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 76 of 141 Republican Representatives in PA Send Letter to Congress Asking Them to Reject State's 20 Electors\">swift rebuke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"\u200c data-width=\"500\"\u200d data-dnt=\"true\"><p>\n\u200d  <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe \u200dtweet\u2019s claim about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">real wages<\/a> contains\u2063 a factual \u2062error,\u201d Community Notes\u2064 chided \u200bBiden. \u201cOn \u20623\/15\/20 when US\u200d COVID lockdowns began real wages adjusted\u200c for inflation (AFI) \u2064were $11.15. As\u200c of 7\/16\/23 \u2064real\u2063 wages AFI are \u2064$11.05.\u2063 Real wages AFI\u2063 remain\u2062 lower (not\u2062 higher) than before\u2064 the \u200dpandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2064 Twitter account for the GOP, not to be outdone, \u200dadded, \u201cSince Biden took office, real wages are down 3%.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" \u200bdata-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since Biden took office, real wages are down \u200c3%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According \u2062to <a \u2064href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/indicators\/us_real_average_hourly_earnings#:~:text=Basic%20Info,1.19%25%20from%20one%20year%20ago\" \u2064target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YCharts<\/a>, real\u2064 wages reached \u2063their \u2062highest\u200d level in\u200b the\u2064 last\u200b four years at $11.72 \u2063by\u200b the end \u200dof April 2020, before\u2063 the full \u200cimpact of COVID. However, by the end \u200bof \u200cJune \u200c2020, they fell \u200cto\u2063 $11.41 \u200cand remained \u200daround that\u2063 level \u200duntil \u200dBiden&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-brags-about-americans-real-wages-twitters-community-notes-levels-him\/\" title=\"Biden boasts about US wages, Twitter community disagrees.\">real \u2063wages\u200b started \u2062steadily \u2064declining<\/a> \u2063thereafter. \u2064By May 31, 2022,\u2063 they were\u200d hovering at $11.01, and \u200cby \u200cthe end of\u200c the following \u200bmonth, they\u2063 had plunged \u2062to\u200b $10.92.<\/p>\n<p>During\u2064 the 31 months\u200b since \u2064Biden \u200ctook office, \u2064the \u200cinflation rate has averaged a\u200d staggering 6.22%.\u2062 In contrast,\u2062 during the same\u2062 period \u2063after \u200cformer President Trump&#8217;s\u200b inauguration, the \u2064inflation rate\u2062 averaged only\u2063 2.17%. Biden&#8217;s \u2062signing of the \u2064$1.9\u2062 trillion \u200cAmerican Rescue \u2063Plan \u200band a\u200b $1.1\u200b trillion infrastructure package contributed to \u2064this significant \u2064increase.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b his\u200c 2023 \u2062State of the\u2064 Union Address, \u2064President Biden \u2063boasted\u200b about creating\u2062 &#8220;12.7 million\u200d new \u200djobs, more jobs created in\u200b two\u2063 years \u2064than any president\u200b has\u200c ever \u2062created\u2063 in \u200cfour years.&#8221;\u2064 However, this claim conveniently \u200cignored\u200b the fact that the U.S. economy lost\u200c over 22 million jobs\u200b in March and April \u200b2020 due to the\u200b COVID-induced\u200b economic shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in \u200bthe first\u2064 two years \u200cof \u200dBiden&#8217;s\u2063 presidency, federal spending rose to 40%\u200d higher \u2062than the pre-COVID 2019 budget. His \u2063proposed 2024 budget would add\u200c as much to\u2063 the national\u200d debt \u200das former\u2064 President Trump and \u2063former \u200dPresident George W. Bush \u2063combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s attempt to boast about higher real wages in America post-pandemic backfired as Twitter&#8217;s Community Notes swiftly rebuked him, pointing out a factual error in his tweet. Instead of blowing his horn, Biden unintentionally brought the walls of Jericho tumbling down with his bogus claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1975231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}