Assertion: minimum wage | /r/HasProperty | ineffective
Facets:
value: as a policy
type: MANNER
value: at reducing poverty
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: A widely circulated argument that the minimum wage was ineffective at reducing poverty was provided by George Stigler in 1949:
text: Some opponents of raising the minimum wage contend that as a policy for reducing economic hardship, the minimum wage is ineffective because many poor people do not work.