State of the Union fact check: What Trump claimed

President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address to Congress and the country after a record-setting, 35-day partial government shutdown.

This was his first time addressing the divided Congress, which now features a Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate. Stacey Abrams made history Tuesday night by delivering the Democratic response to the State of the Union. She was the first African-American woman to give the formal response to the president's address.

Our team of journalists from ABC News investigated some of Trump's statements and one of Abrams', looking for additional context, detail and information.

Here is ABC News' fact check of the address:

While U.S. unemployment under the Trump administration has remained low and the nation's private sector has added jobs -- the real average wage, which accounts for inflation, has barely moved. In fact, according to a 2018 Pew Research study the average wage has the same purchasing power as it did 40 years ago. The gains went to the top earners, the report cites.

"The evidence indicates that most of the benefits from a corporate rate cut would go to those at the top, with only a small share flowing to low- and moderate-income families," according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The center also concluded that more than one-third of the benefit of corporate rate cuts flows to the top 1 percent of Americans and 70 percent flows to the top fifth.

Abrams statement that "layoffs are looming" is also overly broad and she didn't provide any evidence to back up that claim.

--Rachel Scott