claim: the economy is "too weak to raise income levels."
author: nikki haley
evidence_1: jan 12, 2016 ... "as he enters his final year in office, many americans are still feeling the squeeze  of an economy too weak to raise income levels. we're feeling a crushing national  debt, a health care plan that has made insurance less affordable and doctors less  available, and chaotic unrest in many of our cities," she said.
evidence_2: nov 11, 2016 ... the consumer end of the economy is starved for income - and higher interest  income to consumers would be positive. ... all change is disruptive, but leaving  federal funds rate unchanged embeds the low interest rates into the economy  where the impact from raising rates grows as more and more of the ...
evidence_3: jan 6, 2015 ... it would have been $94,310, roughly 23 percent (nearly $18,000) higher had  inequality not widened (i.e., had their incomes grown at the overall average rate —an overall average buoyed by stratospheric ... reproduced from figure i in  raising america's pay: why it's our central economic policy challenge.
evidence_4: feb 11, 2016 ... "i know a lot of americans are angry about the economy, and for good cause,"  clinton said. "americans haven't had a raise in 15 years." many individual  american households have seen their incomes rise since the turn of the century.  but we'll take a look at the most basic measure of how well americans ...
evidence_5: in individual income tax rates and “income tax reform.” we define the latter ...  importance is only heightened by recent weak economic performance ... to a  larger economy. while the rate cuts would raise the after-tax return to working,  saving, and investing, they would also raise the after-tax income people receive  from their ...