The 99% Get a Bigger Raise “Political discourse nowadays is enough to depress anyone, and the media don’t help by ignoring good economic news. But buck up, Americans: Worker wages are growing much faster than previously reported,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. American workers’ paychecks rose 4.5 percent in 2017 and 5 percent in 2018—$4.4 billion and $87.1 billion more than first reported, respectively. “The trend has continued into 2019, with compensation increasing $378 billion or 3.4% in the first six months alone.” Of course, “recall how liberals blamed ‘secular stagnation’ as the reason worker incomes weren’t growing faster during the latter years of Barack Obama’s Presidency. Yet employee compensation has increased by $150 billion more in the first six months of 2019 than all of 2016.” Click here to read more.

A majority of Americans say that illegal immigration impacts their lives, Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner. “The top concern about illegals was abuse of social programs like healthcare, public schools and welfare.” Three times as many Americans named illegal immigration as their top concern compared with healthcare.

“According to early headlines in the media, the Department of Veterans Affairs' implementation of the MISSION Act was going to be something of a mess,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie writes for Military.com. “But thanks to thousands of dedicated VA workers around the country and President Donald J. Trump's support for this historic reform, elements of the MISSION Act took effect on June 6, and veterans immediately began benefitting from the largest transformation in veterans' health care since the end of World War II.”

“59 percent of voters see Big Tech bias as a problem, including 68 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of Democrats,” Harmeet Dhillon writes in Townhall. “Now that President Trump has championed the cause of internet freedom for all Americans, Big Tech has begun to fight a war of attrition — and our ability to speak and vote freely hangs in the balance.”

“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini last week touted Iran’s support for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas,” White House Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt and U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook write in Fox News. Iran’s leader says he wants to counter the Trump Administration’s Middle East peace plan by arming Palestinians with precision rockets. “The world should be rooting for the Trump administration’s peace vision and the future generations of Israelis and Palestinians who have suffered from this decades-old conflict. The world should be united against Iran’s illicit business and terror activities.”

President Trump has a simple yet holistic vision on health care that separates him from the left, according to HHS Secretary Alex Azar: “He intends to protect what works and fix what’s broken”—including protecting private insurance and Medicare, which currently cover 240 million Americans. Dr. Marc Siegel of NYU, writing in The Hill, calls the President’s strategy “refreshing to doctors, hospitals, and patients.”