What if our biggest problems aren’t economic?
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A new social challenge for a new century.
It’s hardly news that Americans are not happy with the state of their nation. Confidence in the country’s direction crashed hard during the Bush years and never recovered. But what’s notable about more recent years is Americans’ increasing dissatisfaction with their personal lives:1 This decline looks pretty mild, but other numbers tell an even starker story. For example, happiness surveys show an increasingly despondent populace: Suicide has been slowly rising as well. And then there’s consumer sentiment: For intellectuals and commentators such as myself, for many policy wonks and…
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