Northwest Indiana Discussion

When it comes to mayhem, Suburban People will never hold a torch to GARY MAN.

The post tribune and the Times can't print enough papers to keep up with demand in Gary even the teenager are talking about the mayhem going on in south county!

Even the crack addicts have a copy of the news paper and the topic of the week with them is

Happiness costs $75,000/yr. in U.S.
Published: Sept. 7, 2010 at 5:08 PM

PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Money can indeed buy happiness and it costs $75,000 a year for U.S. adults, researchers found.

Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman, both of Princeton University, analyzed more 450,000 responses to a daily survey -- from the Gallup Organization and the Healthways Corp. -- of 1,000 randomly selected U.S. residents and found life evaluation rose steadily with annual income, but the respondents' everyday experiences did not improve beyond approximately $75,000 a year.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found as income dropped from $75,000, respondents reported decreasing happiness and increasing sadness and stress.

Emotional well being refers to the emotional quality of a person's daily life and is assessed by the respondents' report of the time spent in positive and negative emotional states the previous day. Life evaluation refers to a person's thoughts about his or her life and is assessed by a rating scale of zero to 10.

"We conclude that lack of money brings both emotional misery and low life evaluation; similar results were found for anger," the study authors said in a statement. "Beyond $75,000 in the contemporary United States, however, higher income is neither the road to experienced happiness nor the road to the relief of unhappiness or stress, although higher income continues to improve individuals' life evaluations."

Deaton and Kahneman said the data suggest that the pain of life's misfortunes, including disease, divorce and being alone is exacerbated by poverty.

Many of the new poor not getting welfare
Published: Oct. 3, 2010 at 1:24 PM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Welfare has not kept pace with rising poverty and unemployment in the United States, government figures show.

The number of American families in poverty increased by more than 400,000 to record levels from the official start of the recession in late 2007 to this spring, Census Bureau data reported by The Washington Post said. But those getting welfare checks rose only about 185,000.

State programs vary widely, and there is little connection between the condition of a state's economy and the number who have gone onto welfare.

When welfare was transformed in the mid-1990s from a federal entitlement into a state-run program of temporary assistance that emphasized work, it was asked how the system would respond if the economy fell into prolonged decline.

Now it is apparent that "despite extremely high levels of unemployment, that has not translated into welfare increases as much as many people expected," Douglas Besharov, a University of Maryland professor who has studied welfare for years, told the Post.

Congress is letting emergency funds run out Thursday.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/10/ ... 286126676/

What do you have to say now you ignorant racist dumbazz?

Dorian free; killer still out there

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/illinois/article_b25c6793-f44d-5fd1-908e-746a4b4ed5ce.html

...and from GARY......

http://www.nwitimes.com/article_50356608-3e94-53a6-92cf-aeb6cf111938.html

It caught up with OJ time will tell!

So south county is still unsafe lock your doors run and hide there is a terrorist on the lose!