{"id":501135,"date":"2026-02-27T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/tomas-hernandez-alberto-claims-salary-has-improved-despite-inflation-and-defends-the-governments-economic-management\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:16:01","slug":"tomas-hernandez-alberto-claims-salary-has-improved-despite-inflation-and-defends-the-governments-economic-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/economy\/tomas-hernandez-alberto-claims-salary-has-improved-despite-inflation-and-defends-the-governments-economic-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom\u00e1s Hern\u00e1ndez Alberto claims salary has improved despite inflation and defends the government&#8217;s economic management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Santo Domingo.<\/em> \u2014<\/strong> The political leader <strong>Tom\u00e1s Hern\u00e1ndez Alberto<\/strong> stated that in the Dominican Republic <strong>\u201cnowadays you can buy more with the salary than what you could buy four years ago\u201d<\/strong>, referring to the impact of salary increases compared to inflation, during the special broadcast of the newspaper <strong>De \u00daltimo Minuto.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Hern\u00e1ndez Alberto <\/strong>explained that, although there have been price increases, salary increases have allowed for improved purchasing power.\n\n<strong>\u201cThe number of times the salary has been increased in the Dominican Republic allows us to establish that the salary has still improved in relation to what the basic food basket is,\u201d<\/strong> he affirmed.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/President Abinader highlights that the DR is among the most dynamic economies on the continent\">http:\/\/President Abinader highlights that the DR is among the most dynamic economies on the continent<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe leader acknowledged that in the last year there was an economic slowdown, but considered that the data cannot be analyzed in isolation.\n\n&#8220;Denying that there was a decline in economic growth would not be the logic of a political leader,&#8221; he stated. However, he indicated that this behavior was similar to the average in Latin America.\n\n<strong>\u201cNow we grew 2.1, but the international 2.2. It&#8217;s true that it&#8217;s not what we would have liked to have, but it&#8217;s also true that other measurable aspects tell us that this decline did not affect our situation so deeply,\u201d<\/strong> he stated.\n\nAmong those aspects, he mentioned the good performance in foreign exchange, remittances, tourism, free zones, and the agricultural sector. &#8220;Despite these difficulties, the country continued to move forward,&#8221; he pointed out, after noting that there was no halt in the execution of public works.\n\nRegarding the political landscape, he maintained that the president&#8217;s popularity remains at favorable levels.\n\n&#8220;The president&#8217;s popularity remains, I would say, at comfortable levels still,&#8221; he pointed out, although he admitted that &#8220;the same popularity of the government is not desirable, but it&#8217;s also good.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. \u2014 The political leader Tom\u00e1s Hern\u00e1ndez Alberto stated that in the Dominican Republic \u201cnowadays you can buy more with the salary than what you could buy four years ago\u201d, referring to the impact of salary increases compared to inflation, during the special broadcast of the newspaper De \u00daltimo Minuto. Hern\u00e1ndez Alberto explained that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,40841,18793],"class_list":["post-501135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-economy","tag-luis-abinader","tag-salary","tag-tomas-hernandez"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26mP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}