For 50 years, we have aimed at higher incomes \u2013 and got them. But the shocking fact is that, despite being much wealthier, surveys show that we\u2019re no happier than we were five decades ago.\u00a0At the same time we’ve seen an increase in wider social issues, including a worrying rise in levels of anxiety and depression in young people.<\/p>\n
Action for Happiness is a movement for positive social change which is bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. They launch today with a website<\/a> and menu of activities.<\/p>\n I’m keen on happiness. I’ve read a book on the subject by one of the people behind Action For Happiness [my review here<\/a>] and I’ve suggested some tips on “How To Be Happy” [my advice here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For 50 years, we have aimed at higher incomes \u2013 and got them. But the shocking fact is that, despite being much wealthier, surveys show that we\u2019re no happier than we were five decades ago.\u00a0At the same time we’ve seen an increase in wider social issues, including a worrying rise in levels of anxiety and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}