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Labor Day By the Numbers
You know that Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer, but did you know the reason we celebrate?
What is believed to have started in New York City as a parade of Union workers in 1882, is now the full-fledged, government sanctioned, end-of-summer tradition we know as Labor Day.
Two years after that first parade Congress passed a bill establishing a federal work holiday and President Grover Cleveland designated the first Monday in September as Labor Day.
So before you rush out to a barbecue or pool party in honor of the holiday, here are a few things you might not know about our American workforce, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau:
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- There are 153.2 million people 16 and older in the nation's labor force, as of July 2011.
- 55,733 are telemarketers, 10,980 are actors, 395,503 are hairdressers and 3,039,523 are teachers.
- A 2009 report documents the median salary for men is $47,127; while the median earnings for women is just $36,278.
- Those in the know predict network systems and data communication analyst jobs to grow by 53 percent from 2008 to 2018.
- In 2009, 5.9 million reportedly worked from home.
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