Chart: Simulated change in 2013 market-based poverty rate if all wages had increased at same rate as average wage growth over 1979–2013 | Economic Policy Institute

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Simulated change in 2013 market-based poverty rate if all wages had increased at same rate as average wage growth over 1979–2013

		Percentage point reduction by growing wages with average wage growth
Non-elderly	100% of poverty	-1.67106
	200% of poverty	-3.55731
Age 18–64	Male	-1.27915
	Female	-1.54049
	Workers	-1.44217
Children (under 18)	All children	-2.3578
	Children with working parent(s)	-2.53403

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Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) microdata

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