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Report: Republicans Are Making America Sad Again

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“The report’s overview notes that ‘increasingly, happiness is considered to be the proper measure of social progress and the goal of public policy.’ America is on the opposite track. Economic growth has long been the holy grail in Washington. That applies to both parties, but it is especially true of the Republicans and the Trump administration, who are now rushing to eliminate all kinds of regulations on the grounds that they interfere with growth. Never mind that many of these rules contribute to our well-being in other ways: protecting people’s retirement savings; ensuring that Americans have decent health care and a social safety net; preventing rapacious industries from befouling the air, water, and atmosphere. As the leaders of 137 nonprofit groups put it in a recent letter to the White House, ‘Americans did not vote to be exposed to more health, safety, environmental and financial dangers.'”

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