Tuesday’s Stark Midwest Contrast of Trump and Democrats | RealClearPolitics
Returning to the Badger State as the sitting president — indeed, in the very city where Democrats will hold their nominating convention this summer — he powerfully made the case that the Trump Boom has delivered results to the very voters who vaulted him into the White House. Blue-collar workers thrive in America, at last. By every relevant measure, wages advance fastest now for the economic underdogs, the strivers. American workers who lagged during the tepid Obama recovery now surge to the lead with, for example, 6% wage growth for non-high school graduates, a pace of expansion three times better than during Obama s second term. In fact, per Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank s analysis, the wage growth differential for the lowest quartile of earners has exploded to relative outperformance levels unseen since the 1990s. Because of this broadening prosperity, an amazing 40 million fewer Americans no longer reside in households receiving government assistance, compared to just three years ago.