The Ghost Economy: Poverty Determinants in Single U.S. Households

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️Available for Broadcast 📖 Read companion article 🎥 YouTube: Two families. Identical income on paper. Completely different lives. One has an invisible team of workers — cooking every meal, caring for every child, cleaning every room — for free. The other has nothing. Our official poverty statistics call them equal. This episode reframes what income and poverty actually mean — by introducing the concept of extended income: market earnings plus the imputed value of...