For poverty line, on a family basis, the incremental cost of another person approaches $5k (compared to $11.7k) so taking families into account the lower bound

For poverty line, on a family basis, the incremental cost of another person approaches $5k (compared to $11.7k) so taking families into account the lower bound of payments is $1.5-2 trillion (if all we had were really big families) http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm