wages: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/wages/ Everyone on the record about wages: 6 verbatim quotes from 3 people, May 2024 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:20 +0000 JD Vance: Vance claims the administration created 29,000 manufacturing jobs in 18 months and reversed wage dec https://minutesof.com/q/83508289-6542-4ee2-b81a-035cdafffef2/ https://minutesof.com/q/83508289-6542-4ee2-b81a-035cdafffef2/ “We've created in just eighteen months, 29,000 new manufacturing jobs and we've reversed years of wage decline where people were getting poor.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:30:40 +0000 wages JD Vance: Vance claims 29,000 new manufacturing jobs created in 18 months, reversing wage decline. https://minutesof.com/q/39fcd95e-3361-42ee-9a51-3052a7dffa6c/ https://minutesof.com/q/39fcd95e-3361-42ee-9a51-3052a7dffa6c/ “We've created in just eighteen months, 29,000 new manufacturing jobs and we've reversed years of wage decline where people were getting poor.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:58:11 +0000 wages JD Vance: Vance claims manufacturing wages rose 4.2 percent under Trump after declining under Biden. https://minutesof.com/q/1134304b-568c-460b-9615-d9b0406f2e37/ https://minutesof.com/q/1134304b-568c-460b-9615-d9b0406f2e37/ “manufacturing workers wages actually went up 4.2% where they went down under the Biden administration,” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:15:28 +0000 wages Scott Bessent: Bessent forecasts real wage gains could return as soon as this month after inflation spike. https://minutesof.com/q/38c658e7-621f-415c-813e-9b46ab432e17/ https://minutesof.com/q/38c658e7-621f-415c-813e-9b46ab432e17/ “I would expect that perhaps as soon as this month, we're going to see real wage gains.” — Scott Bessent, CBS Mornings Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:31 +0000 wages Scott Bessent: Bessent expects real wage growth to resume as soon as next month after April spike. https://minutesof.com/q/cbcb0851-4b4a-4cf7-b6e8-35e2262c72a3/ https://minutesof.com/q/cbcb0851-4b4a-4cf7-b6e8-35e2262c72a3/ “But we had had before April, we had seen real wage growth for working Americans every month during President Trump's presidency, and I would expect maybe even as soon as next month we will go back to that.” — Scott Bessent, CBS News Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:58:25 +0000 wages Bill Gurley: Gurley questions moral basis of protecting $40/hour Iowa workers versus $15/hour Mexican workers. https://minutesof.com/q/55977cdb-2c98-464f-b8bc-42eba835d3c9/ https://minutesof.com/q/55977cdb-2c98-464f-b8bc-42eba835d3c9/ “it's unclear to me why a worker in Iowa needs $40 an hour if there's a worker in Mexico that's willing to bust his ass for 15.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 wages