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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness (in America)
The latest World Happiness Report rankings have been released, and the Nordics dominate the top 10. What will move the needle?
Professor Jeffrey Sachs Decries 'Surly, Nasty' U.S.
Chances are, if you live in the U.S., you feel worse today than you did 10 years ago. Don’t worry, it’s not you. This is a national problem: America’s rank on the happiness scale is falling.
When it comes to happiness, the U.S. ranked 19th among the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in 2016, down from third among 24 countries on a similar measure in 2007, according to the World Happiness Report, produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and funded by the Ernesto Illy Foundation.