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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

  • Written by Leila Gautham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds
imageKeeping up with chores takes a lot of time and is worth money.jubaphoto/E+ via Getty Images

When economists track inequality, they typically focus on incomeand 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 tha...

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