The People Who Immediately Benefit from a Minimum Wage Are

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Multiple Choice

The people who immediately benefit from a minimum wage are

• A) employers who now pay the minimum wage.
• B) those people who enter the labor force to search for minimum wage jobs.
• C) the workers who retain their jobs after enactment of the minimum wage.
• D) everyone, both demanders and suppliers, because the minimum wage benefits everyone.
• E) all workers.

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