Measure: Claims and Statistics

measure: And all three claims could be correct, depending on what measure is used to justify it, according to MSNBC. Parsing the political claims on wages is an exercise in fun with statistics. Fact Check Posts Are Wages Rising or Flat By Lori Robertson Posted on June 28, 2019To hear politicians tell it, wages are rising at the fastest rate in a decade, are the same as they were 45 years ago and are at a 60-year low. There are several different ways to measure what's happened to workers' paychecks, leading to disparate and conflicting claims, and confusing messages to voters. The bottom line, as shown in the graph below from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is that real wages over the long-term peaked in the early 1970s, before generally falling over the next few decades and then beginning to climb back up starting in the mid-1990s. There's not necessarily one way to look at wages and that's why you can get all the conflicting claims, Jay Shambaugh, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, told us. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.