Poll: Americans are the unhappiest they've been in 50 years
Source: AP
Spoiler alert: 2020 has been rough on the American psyche. Folks in the U.S. are more unhappy today than they’ve been in nearly 50 years.
This bold — yet unsurprising — conclusion comes from the COVID Response Tracking Study, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. It finds that just 14% of American adults say they’re very happy, down from 31% who said the same in 2018. That year, 23% said they’d often or sometimes felt isolated in recent weeks. Now, 50% say that.
The survey, conducted in late May, draws on nearly a half-century of research from the General Social Survey, which has collected data on American attitudes and behaviors at least every other year since 1972. No less than 29% of Americans have ever called themselves very happy in that survey.
Most of the new survey’s interviews were completed before the death of George Floyd touched off nationwide protests and a global conversation about race and police brutality, adding to the feelings of stress and loneliness Americans were already facing from the coronavirus outbreak — especially for black Americans.
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sorry to hear that life is feeling so difficult right now.
I think we have no idea just how traumatic the past few months have been (and the last four years) on our psyches, both individually and on a collective level.
Be kind to yourself.
and that asshole wants to have everyone that is currently unemployed about 38 million, getting ready to lose the Cares act funding..........that asshole #Moscow Mitch wants to create more poor after all its the libertarian way............I got mine the rest of you can eat cake...................
