Editing Poverty threshold (section)

====Government transfers to alleviate poverty====
In addition to wage and salary income, investment income and government transfers such as [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program|SNAP]] (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps) and housing subsidies are included in a household's income. Studies measuring the differences between income before and after taxes and government transfers, have found that without social support programs, poverty would be roughly 30% to 40% higher than the official poverty line indicates.<ref name="Kenworthy">{{cite journal | last1=Kenworthy | first1=L | year = 1999 | title = Do social-welfare policies reduce poverty? A cross-national assessment | url = http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/188.pdf| journal = Social Forces | volume = 77 | issue = 3| pages = 1119–39 | doi = 10.1093/sf/77.3.1119 | hdl = 10419/160860 }}</ref><ref name="Bradley et al.">{{cite journal | last1=Bradley | first1= D | last2=Huber | first2=E | last3=Moller | first3=S. | last4=Nielson | first4=F | last5=Stephens | first5=JD | year = 2003 | title = Determinants of relative poverty in advanced capitalist democracies | jstor = 3088901 | journal = American Sociological Review | volume = 68 | issue = 3| pages = 22–51 | doi=10.2307/3088901}}</ref>