Promises Kept: Trump Creates Largest Blue-Collar Wage Growth in 60 Years

The economic story of America for the past several decades has been one of increasing overall economic growth, accompanied by a hollowed-out industrial core and a constantly struggling middle class.

President Donald Trump, however, is emerging as an antidote — if not the antidote — to the quasi-intentional emaciating of everyday Americans’ economic lives.

Trump has overseen the very first increases in real wages for hourly workers since Richard Nixon — now almost 60 years ago.