Study reveals the key to happiness—and it's not money

Relationships and sound mental health are what really make us happy, rather than money, according to new extensive research. Eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20 percent, whereas eliminating poverty would only cut it down by 5 percent, social scientists at the London School of Economics have said, after conducting research into the most effective ways to promote wellbeing and reduce misery. Professor Richard Layard, who co-authored the study.