Shen Wong

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Monday, March 7, 2012 – The happiest man in America, what does it look like? According to a collaboration between THE NEW YORK TIMES and Gallup, he's Shen Wong: a 59-year-old Chinese-American Jewish man, Lives in Honolulu. who's married with children. Shen wong have his own health care business and he earns more than $125,000 a year by his business. Why is Shen Wong so jovial? Because one morning he meets the criteria of making a happy living, according to some data that GULLUP has collected from Americans over the last four years on such factors as emotional health, healthy habbits, financial status, etc., and more. Gallup uses the data to create an algorithm called the Gallup Healthways of Living, Well-Being Index, which provides a daily

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