THE FACTS: This is an unsupported statement because the data on hourly wages for private workers only go back to 2006, not decades. But data on wages for production workers date back to 1939 — and Trump's claim appears to be unfounded. Those wage gains were higher as recently as early 2009. There are other ways to track wage gains — and those don't work in Trump's favor, either. The gains in weekly wages were 2.1 percent in 2015.

Source: Economic Times February 06, 2019 03:11 UTC