By Barney Hussey-Yeo

There's something significant being overlooked in the economy, and it's not something that should be ignored any longer.

When we talk about the economy, we talk about what we can measure. Growth rates, inflation, employment figures. All useful, all important. But they're built on assumptions about how people live that are increasingly out of date. They assume stability. They assume ownership. They assume a version of adulthood that doesn't really exist anymore for millions of young people.

The problem isn't that young people are struggling. Everyone knows that. The problem is that their struggles don't register in the data that matters. If you're freelancing across three different platforms, your income looks erratic on paper, even if you're working 60-hour weeks. If you're renting a room in a shared flat, you don't exist in housing statistics the way homeowners do. If you're building something........

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