claim: during the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: oct 9, 2014 ... in fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: the  $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in january 1973 has the same purchasing power as  $22.41 would today. a similar measure, “usual weekly earnings” of employed, full -time, wage and salary workers, tells much the same story, albeit ...
evidence_2: feb 23, 2014 ... in both the house chamber and on the factory floor, the president insisted that  over the past four years, corporate profits and stock prices soared while wages  fluttered. in the state of the union, obama claimed that "average wages have  barely budged." politifact national rated his statement true, finding the ...
evidence_3: jun 15, 2017 ... canadians are paid, on average, almost the same hourly rate as in the 1970s,  even as an increasing number of people become increasingly educated.
evidence_4: mar 12, 2014 ... economic stagnation is an issue that has become a major talking point for both  parties. take president barack obama's most recent state of the union address,  in which he said that during the past four years, "average wages have barely  budged." we rated that claim true. now, sen. rob portman, r-ohio, ...
evidence_5: aug 21, 2013 ... the wage-setting mechanism has been broken for a generation but has  particularly faltered in the last 10 years, once the robust wage growth of the late  1990s ... wages and salaries was severed—the income of the top 1 percent  nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while the typical family's barely budged.