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The truth about happiness

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Sprinkled rainbow

by Jennie S. Bev, Palo Alto

An old adage goes, “Money doesn’t buy happiness.” Well, this has proven to be a fallacy. Economists Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman found in a survey of 450,000 Americans in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that those who earned at least US$75,000 annually had a better sense of well-being than those who earned less. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Beni Bevly

September 8th, 2011 at 10:09 am