New York State: I Love Unhappiness

The research is in: New York really is the unhappiest state in the nation. Two researchers, including a Professor of Economics from my alma mater, Hamilton College, combined two sets of data—one objective and one subjective—and found a correlation that allowed them to rank the 50 states and DC by happiness. So, not only do we NYers have a low standard of living by one data set, but we know we do according to the other. Ouch. From the NYT.