Married Americans Are More Unhappy Than Ever

It’s logical, isn’t it? People who choose to stay married should be happier in their relationships. After all, it’s easier than ever to exit a miserable union, people tend to wait longer before making the jump and many just don’t get married at all. Despite that, the number of Americans who say they’re “very happy” in their marriages has fallen from 68 percent in the early 1970s to 60 percent. There are four types of people who tend to be happiest with the quality of their marriage: those who spend more time at religious centers, people with extreme political views (skewing to either spectrum), those who describe themselves as upper class—and men.

There were 24 electric vehicle models on sale in North America in the third quarter this year. By the close of 2022, there will be 136. Not including hybrids. That’s how badly everybody wants to be in the electric car game, despite the fact that Tesla is burning through cash. (By the end of the year, Elon Musk’s company will have spent $10 billion without even making 10 cents, Bloomberg’s David Welch reports.) In the U.S., sales of electric cars still counted for less than 1 percent of the market last year. Even British inventor James Dyson, better known for hand dryers in public restrooms and swanky vacuum cleaners, wants a piece of the electric car market.