We at the HOTLINE were the first to report that average wage increases fell below inflation for the bottom half of workers under Joe Biden – something that is finally being reversed under President Trump.
The Census Bureau reports overall poverty and child poverty increased under Biden. Its new annual report makes clear Biden’s 2021 pledge upon taking office was hollow:
“It is not enough to restore where we were prior to the pandemic. We need to build a stronger economy that does not leave anyone behind — we need to build back better.”
The $6 trillion in federal giveaways did bring poverty down briefly, but then it soared.
If you choose 2019 as your point of comparison, the increase in poverty under Biden is bad. If you choose 2020, it’s catastrophic.
You don’t have to take our word for it, Stephen Semler of the Center for International Policy, notes that those who “insisted economic conditions under Biden were great, dismissed widespread reports of economic misery by implying that people were too dense to understand their own financial situations, and enraged large swaths of the voting-eligible population with that politically toxic narrative.”