A Disadvantage Associated with a Minimum Wage Law to Reduce

question 123

Multiple Choice

A disadvantage associated with a minimum wage law to reduce poverty is that it

• A)encourages illegitimate births because single women with children receive higher payments.
• B)rewards laziness because it provides payments to those with low incomes regardless of their work effort.
• C)focuses on children and the disabled while neglecting the working poor.
• D)may benefit the teenage children of families who are not poor.

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