Labor Day 2024: History and facts
Labor Day is celebrated the first Monday of September.
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Americans this Labor Day have many reasons to give thanks, for the changes that brought us to this point and those that lie in the election season upon us.
For the first time in decades, almost all of us who want jobs have them, whole industries are reviving and new ones forming, while wages rise and inflation abates. The labor movement stands reinvigorated, with domestic manufacturing on the rise and a broad boost to the economy from fast-unfolding technological and digital advances.
And while this holiday honors the workforce, it’s equally appropriate this year to consider that the word “labor” also signals imminent birth. America, after all, is not so much a fully formed society as it is an ideal in gestation. And perhaps as much as any Election Day before, this Nov. 5 presents a chance for citizens to give that democratic ideal new vitality, to reinforce individual rights and equality, and reinforce the means to do so unfettered by partisan trickery and undistracted by false claims of electoral fraud.
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There are days when we’ve despaired. So many among us have fallen dupes to pervasive disinformation of the kind we previously attributed to Soviet apparatchiks but that now is freely sowed by our own politicians in the fertile ground of credulous American minds. But now we sense a change, a budding acknowledgement of values that had been overshadowed by those who gave little mind to the integrity and empathy in which America’s greatness awaits.
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News cycles and opinion polls of late point away from extremes and toward renewed public confidence in a national rebirth, a movement not born of falsely generated anger and negativity but of a mission to lift us all, with affordable child care, health care and just with caring. Add to that, uncensored education, reproductive freedom, gender and racial diversity, as sources of this renewed enthusiasm. And powering all of that, a strong, stable economy leading the world in its emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.
So on Labor Day, put your feet up, relax and recharge. Because there’s a lot of good work ahead of us.
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Publish date : 2024-08-30 23:12:00
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