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Happiness Among Americans Plummeted During Covid. It Has Not Recovered Since

ProMarket writers

In new research, Sam Peltzman finds that Americans are significantly less happy than they were before Covid-19, even with the pandemic now in the rearview mirror. Those groups that had fared the best before Covid—white Americans, the wealthiest, college educated, and Republicans—were hit the hardest.

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