Pay me more and I’ll let you know.
Money and happiness may not have a super-strong relationship - but it’s enough to be bad news for the Bush economy, where Americans have been earning less over the years. Perhaps depressed wages have contributed to depressing people with an overwhelming majority of Americans believing we’re going in the wrong direction.
Here in DuPage one recent study by the Heartland Alliance says between 2000 and 2006 median annual DuPage household income (in 2006 dollars) declined by $8,470. The Heartland Alliance also found average earnings for new workers in DuPage were down 5.4% ($138/month) from 2004 to 2005.
Around 1970 some said life’s a gas. Since then family income hasn’t gone up, or gone up much for a lot of people - and now we can’t afford to buy the gas.
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