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From the article: President Trump promised the typical American household a $4,000 pay raise as he pushed for his tax giveaway to the rich. The reality, however, is that from December 2017 to December 2018, real wages for average workers have gone up by just $9.11 a week.

While I agree with Schumer and Sander's viewpoint, I think it's a little disingenuous to compare a per year value to a per week value.

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Not at all. 9.11 * 52 = 473.72. At the very least, it's very obviously somewhere between $468-$520/yr, just over 1/10 of what was promised. There's no insincerity nor obfuscation...

Well, except 'household' is not the same as 'worker', and 'typical' is not falsifiable so it could mean anything. When you take a 'typical' household, say 2 employed parents 2 kids and they own a home or other assets it's far from an unreasonable estimate.

But this isn't about reasonable estimates, of course. Hence the deceptive per worker per week comparison. You got played by the household versus worker they snuck in there.

Multiply by 52. That makes it $4000 compared to $474.

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