Minimum Wage Legislation

question 182

Multiple Choice

Minimum wage legislation

• A)has little effect on university professors.
• B)raises incomes of unskilled laborers who have jobs.
• C)prevents some willing workers from getting jobs.
• D)All of the above are true.

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