Wages for unskilled workers are currently increasing faster than for the workforce as a whole. This is due primarily to increases in the minimum wage that were opposed by Trump and the GOP. Trump is nonetheless trying to take credit for what he calls a blue collar boom.
I’m not a huge fan of the minimum wage, as everyone who reads this blog knows, but the dissonance here represents a huge opportunity for the Democrats to exploit. They would be wise to make the $15 minimum wage one of the centerpieces of their campaign, along with efforts to protect and expand Social Security.