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	Are You Happy?
kenstipe
5-8-2008 11:40 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9830a784-7cf1-4f90-bf32-454aa16b70b6/36E8D069-54CF-4EBA-AC1D-9787CF89A27F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet" href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet" style="font-size: 11px;">pewresearch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet">Americans have always had a thing about happiness. We all have certain unalienable rights, declares our Declaration of Independence, among them "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><P class="text">So then, a couple of centuries into the chase, how are we doing?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><P class="text">Alas, only so-so. Just a third (34%) of adults in this country say they're very happy, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey. Another half say they are pretty happy and 15% consider themselves not too happy. These numbers have remained <A href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/?ChartID=37">very stable for a very long time</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pewresearch.org/img/D9B3B727-77E9-4AA6-8FAE-61ED3ADF0736" alt="Graph: About One Third of Americans Are Very Happy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><P class="text"><IMG width="26" height="14" alt="PDF" src="http://pewresearch.org/images/new/pdficon.gif" /> <A href="http://pewresearch.org/assets/social/pdf/AreWeHappyYet.pdf">Download the complete report</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pewresearch.org/img/B32D0817-80D4-473B-AC81-B3821E5D006D" alt="Graph: Does Money Buy Happiness?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pewresearch.org/img/B9CC1410-A0AC-4892-8F9B-63030A2AFA18" alt="Graph: Republicans Happier than Democrats, Independents" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pewresearch.org/img/3C266A61-1924-446B-A14C-43D0DBA8344E" alt="Graph: Frequent Church-Goers Are Happier" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pewresearch.org/img/AAA9D4C1-734B-4876-A9E4-3D233FCEE4D2" alt="Graph: Is Marriage Bliss?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"> healthy people tend to have more income, and both these traits independently correlate with happiness.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet"> there's an even stronger association between <A href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/?ChartID=41">feeling unhealthy and unhappy</A>. Fully 55% of people who say their health is poor also report that they are "not too happy." No other characteristic measured in this report comes close to rivaling poor health as a predictor of unhappiness.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36E8D069-54CF-4EBA-AC1D-9787CF89A27F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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