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Why America is deeply, uniformly unhappy

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 28, 2026
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The happiness crash that started in 2020 didn’t spare any particular group. University of Chicago economist Sam Peltzman analyzed self-reported happiness data and found the decline cut 10 to 15 percentage points across every demographic he examined — every age group, every income level, every ideology, every gender. Rich…

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