Claim: "Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts
Fact-check: Ryan says incomes went down nationally under Obama but went up in Massachusetts when Romney was governor  
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Dave Umhoefer
Date published: 2012-08-28T00:00:00