Friday, May 6, 2016

WORLD REPORT FINDS AMERICANS LESS HAPPY
“ . . .  the U.S. doesn’t just have income inequality. It has happiness inequality, too. The report [of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network] found that the gap between the most and least-happy Americans was significant: We came in 85th out of 157 countries.
“There is a very strong message for my country, the United States, which is very rich, has gotten a lot richer over the last 50 years, but has gotten no happier,” Jeffrey Sachs, head of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which developed the report, told Reuters. “The message for the United States is clear. For a society that just chases money, we are chasing the wrong things. Our social fabric is deteriorating, social trust is deteriorating, faith in government is deteriorating.”


Martha C. White, “Why Americans Have Gotten a Lot Less Happy Over the Past Decade,” Time magazine, March 16, 2016, Money Section.