By The Survivors Club Staff
August 25, 2009
The number of Americans who are "suffering" has increased by 3 million over the past year, according to a new study from Gallup, a leading company that studies human nature and behavior. In other words, there are three million new members of the Survivors Club -- three million men, women and children who describe themselves as suffering in their current lives with low expectations for the future.
While an average of 3% of Americans were suffering in February of 2008, the number has remained higher over the past 12 months, consistently between 4% and 5%, according to Gallup.The Gallup Poll asks at least 1,000 Americans each day to evaluate their current lives as well as their expectations of where they will be in five years. The increase in "suffering" has been accompanied by declines in the percentage of Americans who are "thriving."
The index bottomed out in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the nation's economic woes came to the forefront. And while there was a considerable rebound in well-being as the new year and the run up to the presidential inauguration got underway, the "January-effect" seems to have been short lived as February and March of 2009 has seen the index approach previous lows.
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