Less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsistence, the four things that bring happiness are faith, family, friends and work. Those are the things we have to keep in mind those are part of human flourishing. Host from your book Gross National happiness, this is a book about americas happiness. Doing sums across our population, can we say that the United States is a happy country . Whats your answer to that question . Guest the answer is generally, yes. Now theres so many indices of which country is happier than another and theyre generally not reliable. And part of the reason is because different cultures answer the question differently. So just getting a survey how happy are you, youre going to find that countries that have germanic languages answer the question different than those with romance languages, for example. Its that, its really that ridiculous.
Event to come to. I am with some muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose and politics and prose and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham and i welcome all of you to this evenings event. I think less of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, professor wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone appear and we really would like it if he could make it to the mic if you have questions. We videotaped these offense and we also have cspan here tonight so its really helpful if the various audiences can hear what you have is a question. We will and in about an hour. If you dont have a copy of the book and would like one we have plenty upfront. Professor wills will be happy to sign at the end. He asks given the magnitude of this crowd if you could limit your requests for signing to this current book. Sometimes people bring pass books as well but we would like to keep it to the current one so please you might go wi
Life, but they werent sufficient and so some of the things of cultural integrity, of family values, of being able to maintain ones faith, ones faith in god, that these are the things people needed for a truly flourishing life. And in so doing in a developing country, had a lot of lessons for the rest of us. Host can you measure happiness via economic success . Guest no. You can find some predeterminants for having a relatively good life by looking at economic indicators, but that doesnt get you far enough. There are really four things that can lead us to happiness and they dont involve money per se. Let me back up for a second peter. Money, one of the things that we find is enwhen people are poor and that when people are poor and they have deprivation and deciding whether or not to pay for medicine or food theyre less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsi
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and natalie morales. Everybody is watching washington this morning. The u. S. Capitol open for business but for how long . A beautiful shot. Its not so beautiful inside. If you could be a fly on the wall. The big vote coming at 2 00 in the senate today. That will kick things off. A Chain Reaction following that. Well get a lot of perspective on this this morning. Including from bill oreilly. Hes here in our studio this morning. He has a new book called killing jesus. Well talk to him about that as well. That is our top story and its hours away now. Peter alexander has the latest on whats unfolding. Peter, good morning to you. Matt, good morning to you. Anything is possible, but it looks to be an almost uncertainty. That the government will shut down b
Wooduff plus, mark shields and david brooks reflect on the senate vote to curb filibusters and the rest of the weeks news. And we explore the enduring impact of president kennedys 1,000 days in office. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Wooduff americans and the world marked the 50th anniversary today of one of the 20th centurys defining moments the assassination of president john f. Kennedy. Hari sreenivasan reports on the days events. taps playing reporter