White House claim: "In May, real average hourly earnings rose 0.3% over the month and 0.2% over the last 12 months"

The problem? This is based on CPI at 4%, NOT food at 6.7% and housing at 8% (2 of 3 largest expenses).

Inflation-adjusted wages are NOT positive.

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What the WH left out was the second part of the sentence from BLS:

'Decreases in the average workweek led to real wages of -0.3% monthly and -0.7% annually.'

Workers are still doing worse than CPI, and much worse on food and housing.

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