Americans: 3X More Miserable Than Previously Calculated

Economists like to call their profession "The Dismal Science," so you'd think they would have a monopoly on, or at least competence in, measuring dreariness. But it turns out they're not even measuring our misery properly. So claims the Huffington Post, which recently debuted its own Misery Index -- the sum of unemployment and inflation -- to account for the millions of Americans who've been pushed to part-time, or simply given up looking for jobs altogether, but don't appear in the official unemployment rate. (more)