ROMANS: All right, three minutes to the top of the hour. Let's get an EARLY START on your money. It was a record day for the S&P; 500 yesterday. That's right, good news for your investments. The 16th record high of the year, 2nd just this week. You can see futures right now mixed. The big story on CNN Money this morning, how much money would it take for you to be happy? We asked that question in our American dream poll. More than half of Americans say it would take less than $100,000. Nearly a quarter of you say they'd need to make between $100,000 and $200,000 a year to be happy. 11 percent of you need a lot of money. You need $1 million or more to be happy. The median household income in this country, by the way, is 51 grand. Worth noting, 6 percent of people said money can't buy happiness, period. Just 6 percent of you.</s>ROMANS: Six percent of very, very rich people whose Ferraris don't work this morning.</s>ROMANS: Six percent of people and John Berman say money doesn't buy happiness. Meantime, home ownership, long identified as part of the American dream, fewer people are owning homes, but the homes they're living in, they're getting bigger. Much bigger. The average size of the American house, 2600 square feet. Look at that. It's up from 2330 a decade ago, it was 1725 square feet back in 1983. Big mega homes are helping to drive that average up. About 9 percent of homes built last year were bigger than 4,000 square feet.</s>BERMAN: People were a lot smaller in the early '80s.</s>ROMANS: So paychecks are either moving sideways or shrinking, student loans are getting bigger, and our houses are humongous. Square that circle for me.</s>BERMAN: I'm bad at math, thankfully. Also it would depress me. Great to see you today. "NEW DAY" starts right now.
How Much Money Would It Take to Make You Happy?