Lie August 22, 2017 · Rally · Economy

“I believe wages will start going up, because we now have the lowest unemployment rate we’ve had in 17 years, so you’re going to see wages go up, right? They haven’t gone up for a long time.”

Said
August 22, 2017
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Economy
Repeated
79 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1066)

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