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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Raising the minimum wage can lead to increased earnings for teenagers from non-poor families, potentially diverting benefits away from the intended target group of working poor families.

A Disadvantage Associated with a Minimum Wage Law to Reduce