20 Reasons It Really Sucks To Be Poor Right Now

12. "Scientific" Analysis Of Poverty

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According to economists at Princeton University, not only does happiness increase with income, but overall life satisfaction begins once you start making $75,000 a year.

The economists surveyed over 450,000 people in 2008 and 2009, measuring their happiness and satisfaction with life, and you have to wonder why they bothered. Any wage slave in their early 20s could’ve told them that having no money is the pits. 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'