“The Birth of the Minimum Wage”

To my mind, one of the best podcasts is NPR’s Planet Money podcast.  Recently, the Planet Money team has been producing some great shows. The most recent episode discusses the creation of the minimum wage and seems to be the first in a series about the minimum wage.  

Here is a description of the show: 

For most of U.S. history, there was no minimum wage. A few times, politicians passed laws tiptoeing toward a minimum. But the Supreme Court struck those laws down.

On today’s show: how the U.S. finally got a minimum wage. It’s a story of exploding bakeries, a blue eagle, and a guy who may or may not have been drunk.