Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
Peter Wagner is executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative [http://www.prisonpolicy.org]. Susan Edwards is a government documents librarian at Amherst College. Together they are writing a book
