Kentucky Is #2 On This List (high school, income, living in)

[Visvaldis]

Number 2:
Bottom Line - America's most miserable states

My disclaimer: I did not make up this article.

[beilart]

Being poor means having to work harder to put food on the table for your family, even if that food is not the most healthy, it means less time and money for fun and entertainment, it means less time for the proper exercise. It is easy to sit in a nice ivory tower writing statistics about what constitutes happiness or misery. How about asking a few Kentuckians if they are happy or miserable?

[Visvaldis]

Originally Posted by beilart

Being poor means having to work harder to put food on the table for your family, even if that food is not the most healthy, it means less time and money for fun and entertainment, it means less time for the proper exercise. It is easy to sit in a nice ivory tower writing statistics about what constitutes happiness or misery. How about asking a few Kentuckians if they are happy or miserable?

From the link:
"For the second year in a row, Kentucky’s well-being score is the second lowest. Residents consider themselves among the worst-off in the country in life evaluation, healthy behavior and both physical and emotional health. The state is relatively poor, with the fourth-lowest median household income and the fourth-highest rate of poverty. Residents have a low level of education compared to many other states, as only 81.9 percent of adults have at least a high school diploma -- the fifth-lowest rate. The state also has a low life expectancy and among the highest rates of smoking, obesity and heart disease, as well as the highest rate of cancer in the country."

For anyone living in Kentucky it does not need to be stated that Kentucky is poor, that is visibly obvious. A chronic shortage of financial resources cannot contribute to happiness.
I could write what I think makes Kentuckians happy, but I would get a bump on my head from the mod.

[hogsrus]

Dang vitalis...you have rurnt my day...haha