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HOW HAPPY
ARE YOU?
Still, the cash infusion means
access to leaders in the booming
field of happiness studies. Targets
for partnerships include American
psychologist Martin Seligman and
the New Economics Forum, a London-based think tank that helped
Prime Minister David Cameron
launch the British index.
Joining the “movement” means
leaving U.S. borders, according
to Rusk. While the team’s over-
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seas contacts aren’t fazed by “the
whole notion of thinking about a
metrics beyond simply economic
stability,” the U.S., she said “is
lagging, not surprisingly.”
That’s a common enough perception. B ut in fact, it was truer
a year ago than it is today. Santa
Monica’s index follows stateand city-wide ones in Vermont,
Maryland, Seattle, Wash., Eau
Claire, Wis., Somerville, Mass.,
and Nevada City, Calif. This year,
the trend went national, when
the U.S. government announced
Students
and others
look to the
top of the
building
where
a Santa
Monica
High School
student
athlete
jumped to
his death.