A year after Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth the 11th federal holiday, 32 states have not passed legislation to recognize it as a state holiday.
Because Juneteenth is not recognized as a holiday in a majority of states, many state employees across the country are not allowed to take a paid vacation day to observe the holiday, which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In the private sector, Juneteenth will be a paid holiday for about 30% of private employers in the country this year,
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