Donald Trump has increased income levels across all economic groups

In 2019, real median household income rose above $68,000, a 6.8% increase on 2018, the largest one-year increase since records began in 1967,^[1] and the poverty rate fell by almost 1% during the first two years of the Trump administration.^[2] The growth in jobs has benefited all Americans, with real wages adjusted for inflation growing throughout the first three years of Trump’s presidency at the same time as the full-time workforce expanded. Trump has remained committed to improving the position of working class Americans - the largest increase in average household income in 2018 went to those between the 20th and 40th percentile, with an increase of 2.5%. Around 4.2 million people were also lifted out of poverty between 2018 and 2019, whilst poverty rates for black and Hispanic Americans had been as close to the overall poverty rate than they ever had been in 2018. Rates of childhood poverty and poverty among single mothers also fell. Whilst the overall increase in median income was 6.8%, the increase was higher for Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans.^[3]