Republican Representative Byron Donalds asserts that wages for Black Americans and the Black-white wage gap shrank under President Trump. However, fact-checkers point out that while wages did rise under Trump, they increased at a faster rate under President Biden. Additionally, the Black-white wage gap actually widened during Trump's presidency.
“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump 's administration.”Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., meets with journalists at a Florida delegation breakfast at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024.
"I can’t find any way that suggests that is right," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank."No economist is pointing to this."Inflation-adjusted wages for Black men rose under Trump, then faster under BidenWe turned to the standard metric for inflation-adjusted wages, the median usual weekly inflation-adjusted earnings for full-time wage and salary workers, age 16 and older.
Once again, wage growth was higher under Biden. Inflation-adjusted weekly wages for Black men rose from $295 under Trump to $312 under Biden, up 5.7%.How about the wage gap — the difference in wages between white and Black Americans, and between white and Black men? For both Black Americans overall and for Black men in particular, inflation-adjusted wages rose under Trump — but they rose about three times faster under Biden.
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