Blue-collar workers have seen real wages grow almost two percent in the first five months of President Trump’s second term — a stark contrast from the negative wage growth seen during the first five months of the Biden Administration.
“The only other time it has been this high … was during President Trump’s first term,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said in an interview with the New York Post.
The New York Post notes: “Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term … The recovery from a 1.7% decline recorded in Biden’s first five months, as inflation outpaced earnings, suggests a shift in economic conditions for this financially stressed segment of the workforce.”
“It’s the president’s emphasis on manufacturing,” he said on the “Pod Force One” podcast, the New York Post originally reported Tuesday.
“I think there’s also likely a component of whether it’s 12 or 20 million illegal aliens coming out of the workforce, and Joe Biden opened the border, and it was flooded,” Bessent told Post columnist Miranda Devine in an interview. “And that for working Americans, that’s a disaster because it’s, it’s pressure on their wages.”
As Sally Lynne reported for The Daily Caller, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 10, opening up dozens of jobs, according to NBC News on Sunday.
“Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon,” according to NBC. “Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day.”
The 1.7 wage bump contrasts with the 1.7 percent decrease during former President Joe Biden’s first five months in 2021, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
“Every other administration since has seen wage growth fall in comparable periods for blue-collar workers (defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as nonsupervisory and production workers),” the Post reported.
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