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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: RSF. 2018 Feb;4(3):22–43. doi: 10.7758/rsf.2018.4.3.02

Figure 3. Earnings, Net Federal Taxes, SNAP.

Figure 3.

Source: Authors’ calculations (see online appendix for details).

Note: Figures are earnings plus taxes and income support transfers at different minimum wage levels; one adult, two-child household, 2016 tax and benefit amounts. Net federal taxes include Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, income tax liability and worker’s nominal portion of FICA payroll tax. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits calculated based on average of calculators for three states. The Poverty Threshold (2015) is calculated by the census and published each year.