White House Task Force on the Minimum Wage (The More Things Changed)

On January 27th, 2017, Executive Order 13769, signed titled Supporting Workers with a Living Wage, created the White House Task Force on the Minimum Wage to research the effects of raising the minimum wage and to determine the best strategies to do so.

The task force has three co-chairs: David Rolf, Board President of Working Washington; economist Katharine Abraham, Director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy and member of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Rick Santorum, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.

A first-draft report was published six months after the task force was created, in July.