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Why ‘deaths of despair’ are higher in former coal mining communities

Life expectancy in the UK has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. For more than a century, people lived increasingly long and healthy lives. But around the turn of the millennium, that progress began to slow.

The Conversation

Money can really buy you happiness, especially if you’re a billionaire

Researchers find that a correlation between money and happiness extended to people making at least $500,000 a year

The Independent UK

The cries from Britain’s struggling CEOs are growing louder – how can they survive on a mere £4.4m a year?

There are fears in the City of an exodus of bosses to the US, where they reckon they’ll be paid the big bucks they surely deserve, says the author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

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'College for all' has failed America. Can the education system be fixed?

Without good career pathways besides the bachelor's degree, Americans will continue to struggle for economic security.

Fortune

Capitalism Made Us All Richer. So Why Are We Unhappy?

A Q&A with Johan Norberg, author of the book Elon Musk calls "an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right."

Reason

Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’

The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society

The Guardian - US

Measuring well-being in India

An analysis of the Gallup World Poll Surveys for India shows that any signs of reversal of policies are weak, if not missing altogether

The Hindu

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Americans are too lonely

We are immersed in various forms of psychological misery. Much of what ails our society arises from our poverty of human connections.

Chicago Sun-Times

Can Money Buy Happiness? New Research Settles Age-Old Debate

Does more money mean a happier life? Leading Princeton and UPenn researchers revisited the eternal question and reached a surprising conclusion.

Kiplinger

Rising asset wealth and falling real wages ‘drive inequality in Britain’

Young people no longer able to rely on hard work to improve their living standards as they age, says IFS

The Guardian - UK

How much money will actually make you happy?

We can all fantasise about what we need to make ourselves satisfied — and it doesn’t have to be a fortune

Financial Times

Will Bunch: America’s real college debt: How we failed an entire generation

Ewan Johnson’s college dreams nearly crashed down on him after just four days. The saga had started in the mid-2010s near the end of what by his own admission had been an unambitious time in high school. Then, his dreams were abruptly transformed by an unplanned trip across the Delaware…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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