Claim: "The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
Fact-check: David Axelrod says typical white male worker is earning no more than in 1973
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: John Gregg
Date published: 2011-10-05T00:00:00