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When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, income inequality in the US shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965

By Leila Gautham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds
Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita of Economics, UMass Amherst
When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending.

But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning and lawn mowing – is produced by unpaid labor that never appears in these conventional measures.…The Conversation


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