To the Editor:

Re “Incomes in U.S. Are Up Sharply; Poor Gain Most” (front page, Sept. 14):

The new Census Bureau report puts the lie to Donald Trump’s main economic arguments. Americans are earning more, even accounting for inflation, and have made up almost all ground lost since the Great Recession. Less than 10 percent lack health insurance, and the poverty rate exhibits a marked decrease.

And where did the vast majority of that wage growth occur? In the very cities that Mr. Trump derides as full of poor African-Americans beset by crime and poor schools, led by corrupt Democratic mayors.

STEPHEN R. DUJACK

Charlottesville, Va.