Led by Assemblymember Anthony Rendon, a new committee in the California Legislature starts figuring out how to make residents happier.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.One weekly email, all the Golden State newsGet the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Members of the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes listen to speakers during an informational hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 12, 2024.
The hearing was, for the most part, optimistic. Panelists espoused how increasing happiness benefited the greater good: Happy people live longer, are healthier, more successful at work and are more likely to volunteer. It may be much closer than Gov. Newsom and other supporters wanted or expected, but Proposition 1 opponents conceded Tuesday that thedenouncing the measure and saying that proponents, with their nearly $21 million warchest, were “so overconfident and overstuffed with cash.”. The thin margin, opponents argue, should serve as a warning sign not to turn Prop. 1 into a “humanitarian disaster.
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