U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …

—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that … an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden, obstructs the great majority in pursuing happiness, living healthy … the super-rich and the working and middle classes, Ronald P. Formisano explores how the dramatic rise of income inequality …