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
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.