{"id":564280,"date":"2019-01-07T03:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d1db8f55df34308ac4fe0841dacc7b32"},"modified":"2019-01-07T03:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:44:42","slug":"americans-are-happier-in-states-that-spend-more-on-libraries-parks-and-highways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=564280","title":{"rendered":"Americans are happier in states that spend more on libraries, parks and highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are happier in states where governments spend more on public goods, among them libraries, parks, highways, natural resources and police protection, a Baylor University study has found.&#8221;Public goods are things you can&#8217;t exclude people from using\u2014and one person using them doesn&#8217;t stop another from doing so,&#8221; said researcher Patrick Flavin, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Baylor&#8217;s College of Arts &#038; Sciences. &#8220;They&#8217;re typically not profitable to produce in the private market, so if the government doesn&#8217;t provide them, they will either be under-provided or not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are happier in states where governments spend more on public goods, among them libraries, parks, highways, natural resources and police protection, a Baylor University study has found.&#8221;Public goods are things you can&#8217;t exclude people from using&mdash;and one person using them doesn&#8217;t stop another from doing so,&#8221; said researcher Patrick Flavin, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Baylor&#8217;s College of Arts &amp; Sciences. &#8220;They&#8217;re typically not profitable to produce in the private market, so if the government doesn&#8217;t provide them, they will either be under-provided or not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564281,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564280\/revisions\/564281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}