This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on the thursday morning. This isnt even our halloween costm. Im matt lauer along with al roker. I am a yankee fan but you had to feel them good talking about all of what boston has been through and now they bring home the world championship. Good for them. Hard to take you seriously. With everything that boston has been through to. We are beard sox nation today. Can we get over it now . More on the win in a moment and, of course, this is halloween and we all know that. We have a lot in store for you. Two surprise concerts and our big costume reveal which might be our best yet. Let us begin with todays top story the severe storms that are impacting halloween plans for a big section of the country. Al, what do you have . We have a gotogepen well start in kansas. Massive thunderstorms, hail, damaging winds, it is really a mess there. Were going to take a l
Tonight lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to 9 an hour. But as the economist dean baker points out this week, if the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth, it would be over 16. 50 an hour today. We talk a lot about whats happening to the middle class, but the American Dreams really become a nightmare for the poor. Just about everyone has an opinion about the trouble were in. The blame game is at fever pitch in washington where obstinate republicans and hapless democrats once again play kickthecan with the problems we face. You wish they would just stop and listen to Richard Wolff. An attentive and systematic observer of capitalism and democracy, he taught economics for 25 years at the university of massachusetts and has published books such as democracy at work, occupy the economy, and capitalism hits the fan the Global Economic meltdown and what to do about