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<blockquote data-quote="SlugSlinger" data-source="post: 3006961" data-attributes="member: 7248"><p><s><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><u>Federal data released Aug. 9 shows that Americans’ wages are dropping again, seven years after President Barack Obama declared the economy had recovered from the property-bubble — and three months before the 2016 election.</u></strong></span></s></p><p><s><u>The dramatic drop was buried in an Aug. 9 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which said that officials have radically revised their prior claim that wages grew 4.2 percent in the first quarter, from January to March.</u></s></p><p><s><u></u></s></p><p><s><u><a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm" target="_blank">the BLS admitted</a>. Compensation also fell another 1.4 percent in the second quarter, from April to June, the BLS admitted in the same report. That’s 2 percent drop in wages since December.</u></s></p><p><s><u></u></s></p><p><s><a href="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/media.breitbart.com_media_2016_08_Screen_Shot_2016_08_09_at_10.54.48_PM.png" target="_blank"><u><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/media.breitbart.com_media_2016_08_Screen_Shot_2016_08_09_at_10.54.48_PM.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></u></a></s></p><p><s><u></u></s></p><p><s><u>Pay shrank 0.3 percent in 2013, rose a mere 1.1 percent in 2014, but rose a promising 2.7 percent in 2015, <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm" target="_blank">according to the BLS</a>.</u></s></p><p><s><u></u></s></p><p><s><u>The wage drop is a potential p.r. problem for Obama, who has been touting the apparent rise in wages since officials reported that wages grew 2.7 percent during 2015.</u></s></p><p><s><u></u></s></p><p><s><u>In June, Obama cited the mistaken 2016 wage-growth claim while arguing the economy was finally helping ordinary Americans. “Let’s get wages rising faster,” Obama declared in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/01/remarks-president-economy" target="_blank">a speech</a> at Concord Community High School, Elkhart, Indiana.</u></s></p><p><s></s></p></blockquote><p></p>
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