We're feeling better.

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Americans' collective sense of well-being appears to be about back to where it was before the economic crash of more than a year ago, according to the Gallup and Healthways Well-Being Index. The recovery in well-being is apparent across all income and age groups, as well as throughout every region of the country.

The index is a comprehensive measure of Americans' emotional, physical and fiscal health. It measures such things as job satisfaction, access to clean water and medicine, and having enough money for food...