Kerry is going to be making the claim that wages are falling. And itโ€™s true that BLS data for May and June show a small decline in wages (although itโ€™s also true that wages have grown slightly faster under Bushโ€™s whole term than they did under Clintonโ€™s first one). Anyway, there is some reason to believe that the May and June numbers were blips, and I suspect that the falling-wages storyline is going to be outdated by the time the next set of numbers comes out.