Exclusive: New ‘Happiness Index’ Number Reveals How Americans Feel Right Now
Jul 01, 2016, 09:39 PM
How happy are Americans?
The answer, unsurprisingly, is a bit complicated. But with its Happiness Index, the Harris Poll puts a single number on that mood.
Results from polling during May and June of 2016, available first here at TIME, reveal that American happiness in 2016 is down slightly. The new Happiness Index number is 31. That number, which is out of 100, was at 34 last year and has hovered in the low- to mid-30s since Harris began calculating it in 2008.