{"id":39955,"date":"2026-01-02T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39955"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:09:37","slug":"economic-inequality-does-not-equate-to-poor-well-being-or-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39955","title":{"rendered":"Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"c-article-identifiers\" data-test=\"article-identifier\">\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\" data-test=\"article-category\"><span class=\"c-article-identifiers__type\">RESEARCH BRIEFINGS<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\">31 December 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    A meta-analysis of 168 studies covering more than 11 million people found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health. In other words, living in a place that has large gaps between the rich and poor does not affect these outcomes, with implications for policy.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 31 December 2025 A meta-analysis of 168 studies covering more than 11 million people found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health. In other words, living in a place that has large gaps between the rich and poor does not affect these outcomes, with implications for policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1271,21577,37,5099,1031,443,6200],"class_list":{"0":"post-39955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-economic","9":"tag-equate","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-inequality","12":"tag-mental","13":"tag-poor","14":"tag-wellbeing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}