Still confused about whether you have Monday off for Columbus Day? CityLab (with information from the Pew Research Center) has created this brief questionnaire to help you figure it out:
1. Are you a state employee working in one of the blue states below?
“Yes.” Well, aren’t you lucky. According to Pew, state employees working in 23 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico get a paid holiday on Columbus Day. Fun fact: Columbus Day is observed the Friday after Thanksgiving in Tennessee “at the governor’s discretion.”
Tanvi Misra is a staff writer for CityLab covering immigrant communities, housing, economic inequality, and culture. She also authors Navigator, a weekly newsletter for urban explorers (subscribe here). Her work also appears in The Atlantic, NPR, and BBC.
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