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It's not a mystery why everyone got sad in 2020. What is: the fact they never recovered. Sam Peltzman sees a "segregated happiness society."

For the past several years, Peltzman has been combing through the General Social Survey, a random-sample poll that has asked Americans the same simple question since 1972: Are you happy? What he foun…

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  • Source: Fortune
  • Byline: Nick Lichtenberg
  • Published: 03 May 2026 11:00

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