On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner shows that the inflation adjusted federal minimum wage is lower today than it was in the 1960s and 1970s. But while the federal government seems paralyzed on this issue, a few states have begun to increase it on their own.
“[a] surprisingly modest account…Rattner has a journalistic talent for the telling detail, resulting in a memorable tale of life in the middle of the economic meltdown...Rattner deftly draws portraits of the inhabitants of "the Oval" and the West Wing...Rattner has proved himself a gifted chronicler.”
-Time Magazine
