How a close look at the American Dream turned a top happiness expert into a specialist in despair: ‘It’s harder to be poor in a very rich country’

A finance story from the U.S., reported by Fortune.

Finance · the U.S. · October 24, 2026

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Brookings’ Carol Graham has spent decades measuring outcomes. Here's how her study of happiness led to work on despair — and what hope has to do with it.

Reported by Fortune, October 24, 2026. Read the full story at Fortune →

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