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Two Households

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This capstone follows two households of identical income through the concepts of the unit — wealth, mobility, poverty measurement, and the theories explaining all three — to show why income alone predicts so little.

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Two constructed households illustrate a mechanism; they are not data, and no figure here is a reported statistic.