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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Finding the Connection Between Prosperity, Compassion and Happiness

Updated: June 20 2013,
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Usually, as a country’s GDP goes up, that nation’s well-being tends to rise as well. But for the last 35 years, as GDP has grown in the United States, Americans’ average happiness hasn’t increased. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to researchers about how they study the connection between money and happiness.