Legislators Argue That a Minimum Wage Law Is Instituted to Help

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Essay

Legislators argue that a minimum wage law is instituted to help poor people.Economists can attack the minimum wage law on two fronts.First,some argue that government should not help the poor.Second,some argue that minimum wage laws actually hurt the poor because it creates unemployment.Which argument is normative and which is positive?

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Definitions:

Binomial Experiment

A statistical experiment that fits the binomial distribution; characterized by having a fixed number of trials, distinct outcomes (success or failure), independence, and constant probability of success.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, indicating how much they differ from the average of the set.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population for analysis.

Continuous Random

Pertains to a random variable that can take an infinite number of possible values in a continuous range.