The following article by David Cay Johnston was posted on the DCReport.org website August 15, 2018:
Unless You Were Already Making More than $1 Million a Year
We’ve got some disappointing news for all those people who voted for Donald Trump because he promised rising wages.
While Trump keeps saying wages are rising the official government data show that’s just not true.
Consider a worker paid the median wage, half make more and half less, of $600 a week in round numbers. If she got the average 2.8% raise on July 1, her gross pay rose by a bit under $17.