Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours
without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.
Not exact matches
Without significant increases in corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, it is now a virtual certainty that ordinary Canadian families will never enjoy the generous social programs enjoyed by most European families: enhanced maternity leave benefits, livable minimum wages, legislated
paid vacation time of up to six weeks a year, genuine unemployment insurance, home care, pharmacare and more.
Next
time you look to put something new on your credit card or
pay for a
vacation on credit
without the means to
pay it off immediately you need to ask yourself «is this how I want to live?.