How happiness has dropped over time
| Updated: 2:46 p.m. We the People... how are we doing, anyway? The preamble to the U.S. Constitution is one of my favorite snippets of writing. In just 52 words it sets the goals of an entire nation, an entire system of governance. And among them is to “promote the general welfare,” or as the dictionary defines it, “a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous.” Given that, it’s worthwhile to look at our happiness as a people to figure out where we are, where things are going well and where we could stand to do a little better.
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