Graph of the Week

Much-linked, and deservedly so, this graph via Ezra Klein from the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows how little time we Americans give ourselves. We are the only nation in the industrialized world not to legislate paid time off for workers.

Even the notoriously workaholic Japanese mandate ten days a year. Us? Zero.

Pathetic.

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Published by Kit Stolz

I'm a freelance reporter and writer based in Ventura County.

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