List three characteristics of those people who earn minimum wage, according to your text
What will be an ideal response?
(1) About 2.2 million hourly workers earned the minimum wage or even less. (2) Half of these persons were age 25 or older. (3) These low-wage workers are distributed evenly across racial and ethnic groups (except for Asians, who are more likely to have higher wages). (4) Women are more likely to earn minimum wage or less than are men. (5) It is likely that many of these women are supporting children as well as themselves.
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a. small-business b. capitalist c. working d. managerial
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