To the Editor:
The president cited the 4.1 percent increase in gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2018, compared to the second quarter of 2017, as proof of the success of his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That growth is welcome, but since most Americans get their economic benefit from their wages, a better measure of success (or failure) would be the change in real worker wages (the dollar increase minus the lower value of each dollar or the inflation rate) since the act was passed in January…
August 15, 2018
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