The down economy has given new life to a term not used frequently since the Carter administration, the misery index. “The misery index is an economic indicator, created by economist Arthur Okun, and found by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.”
The economic and social cost of the escalation of these two figures increased the suffering of the country and this index became a way to measure and describe the misery without resorting to an Andy Rooney diatribe. Hearing the term again has made me think about using it in another way when dealing with addiction or more specifically, enablement.
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