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Do Americans Remember the ‘Labor’ in Labor Day?

For half of Americans, summer’s over now 'cause it’s Labor Day.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 42% of American Adults celebrate Labor Day as it was originally intended, as a holiday honoring the contribution of workers in society. That’s unchanged from a year ago and ties the highest finding in yearly tracking since 2008.

But 50% recognize Labor Day instead as the unofficial end of summer. That’s up slightly from last year but down from a high of 56% two years ago. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The national survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on August 31 and September 1, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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