Andrew Van Dam and Rachel Siegel January 2, 2020
The United States’ lowest-paid workers are seeing their paychecks rise at the fastest pace in more than a decade.
Slow wage growth has plagued the economy ever since jobs started coming back after the Great Recession. But that has been changing, with wages rising at all levels and especially for those at the bottom.
The Trump White House and Washington policymakers have touted the tight labor market as the main engine driving gains for the working class, but a Washington Post analysis of Labor Department data suggests that paychecks also grew because of a nationwide movement of rising minimum wages in various states and cities over the past couple of years.