On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner dispels the myth of the manufacturing renaissance.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses the latest jobs report.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses why it’s important to extend federal unemployment benefits: the long-term unemployment rate remains elevated compared to past recessions, millions of people rely on unemployment insurance and will be pushed into poverty, and the long-term unemployed continue to have a hard time finding jobs despite improvements in the job […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses his ‘best of 2013’ charts: the 2013 economic winners and losers, the much-hyped yet ultimately tiny budget deal, and Obamacare’s goal to help the poor and uninsured (website debacle notwithstanding).
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner shows Alan Krueger’s famous Great Gatsby curve to explain how the U.S. lags behind several European countries in terms of both income inequality and income mobility. He also shows that even within the U.S., location matters for income mobility.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner shows how little the new Ryan/Murray budget deal accomplishes and how it cuts the wrong kind of spending.
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.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses the soaring stock market and shows who is participating in its gains.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discusses the lackluster holiday sales forecasts and what’s driving them.
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner breaks down Obamacare’s impact on the American people and explains who will end up paying more under the law.
