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Ditch the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes, and get out of our way
March 26, 2024
The annual World Happiness Report was released last week, and it shockingly found that the United States failed to rank in the top 20 happiest countries. Perhaps in response, former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon has created a first-in-the-nation group to study the issue, called the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes. The committee recently had its first hearing. “Because if we have everybody clothed, everybody housed, everybody has a job and they’re miserable, then we’ve failed at what we’re trying to do,” he said, adding that lawmakers should make happiness a priority for policy makers. But while Rendon’s...