Assertion: wage | /r/HasProperty | low
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: compared to the work
type: OTHER
value: disproportionately
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The concept of minimum wage was developed in the early twentieth century to prevent unethical employer practices like sweatshops where the wage was disproportionately low compared to the work.
text: But when the pay is low, I feel that they don’t see us as valuable at all.
text: It sets a wage floor that applies to everyone, which means that people near the bottom of the distribution are likely to make more equal wages, even though those wages are very low (Figure D).
text: The wages were so low, however, that workers still lived at barely subsistence level.