In honor of Labor Dayweekend, The Empire State Building will be lit in red, white & blue for 4 nights.
The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its origins stem from the desire of the Central Labor Union to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894. It was originally intended that the day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the work of the trade and labor organizations. After the parade, a festival was to be held to amuse local workers and their families. One of the reasons for choosing to celebrate this on the first Monday in September, and not on May 1, which is common in the rest of the world, was to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
A Janus van den Eijnden photography in Celebration of Labor Day, a look at women In the U.S. Workforce Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, but they only make up 19 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives. That puts the U.S. at 97th out of 187 countries in terms of women’s legislative representation.
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