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Why Labour should target happiness alongside economic growth | Heather Stewart With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

Great to see @guardianheather.bsky.social make the case for better measures of social progress, pointing to research by our friends @pbe.co.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why Labour should target happiness alongside economic growth | Heather Stewart With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

Great article from @guardianheather.bsky.social - "a more direct focus on making the UK a happier place might help to improve decision-making"

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why has the nation’s wellbeing not bounced back following the pandemic?

Deteriorations in our physical health, mental health and loneliness explain much of the increase in ‘wellbeing poverty’.

We won’t see a recovery in the nation’s wellbeing outlook until we see improvements in these key drivers.

Great piece from @sarahdavidson.bsky.social.

Highlights that “overall, our governments have yet to convince us that they are using the available wellbeing data”

There’s more that can be done to tackle key drivers of low wellbeing as discussed in our new report coming out next week!