A one-hundred dollar bill doesn't get you as far as you may like in the Garden State. According to a new map from the Tax Foundation, New Jersey is one of the states in which $100 is worth the least.

The standard value of $100 across the nation buys just $87.64 worth of goods in New Jersey, the map shows. Only New York, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are more expensive.

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"A big reason is high urbanization," said Lyman Stone, economist at the Tax Foundation's Center for State Tax Policy. "Of course, a big part of that is spillover from the New York-Newark metro area."

Stone said there are policy implications as well. Restrictions on housing construction and high property taxes contribute to the higher cost of living.

In Mississippi, by comparison, $100 is enough for $115.74 worth of goods, essentially meaning that Mississippi residents are about 15 percent richer than their incomes suggest.

Stone noted the map shows a state's income level does not necessarily correlate with a state's price level.

While income in New York, in dollars, easily tops income in Kansas, residents of Kansas actually have a greater amount of purchasing power.

"A lot of the states that we stereotype as being low income or poor are richer than we might've previously thought," Stone said.

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