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New research out of Princeton shows that the poor suffer more pain than the rich. “People in households making less than $30,000 a year spend almost 20% of their time in moderate to severe pain, compared with less than 8% for those in households with income above $100,000 a year,” says economist Alan Krueger.

Another interesting finding was that people who experience pain watch more television than those who do not. People who hurt spend about 25% of their time watching TV while the non-afflicted spend only 16% of their time, according to the self-reported surveys used in the study.

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