Labor Day Celebrated Across the U.S.A. — Transcript

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1. 0:12for most Americans Labor Day is more
2. 0:15play than work it's taking in a ball
3. 0:17game with family and friends picnicking
4. 0:20enjoying the beach or pool cooling off
5. 0:24Labor Day is the traditional end of
6. 0:26summer vacation an estimated $39 million
7. 0:30Americans took to the road and Airways
8. 0:32this holiday weekend that's about 6
9. 0:34million fewer than a year ago and for
10. 0:36young people the holiday also means a
11. 0:39new school year has either just begun or
12. 0:41is about to America first celebrated
13. 0:44Labor Day with a parade in New York
14. 0:46September 5th
15. 0:481882 Congress made Labor Day a national
16. 0:51holiday in
17. 0:521894 it honors the American worker
18. 0:55organized labor and a movement that
19. 0:57helped to end child labor and secure FS
20. 1:00for workers there are still parades and
21. 1:02events across the country that often
22. 1:05attract politicians helping to win
23. 1:07supporters and votes hello everybody
24. 1:10this Labor Day weekend we don't just
25. 1:12celebrate the end of summer we also
26. 1:14honor the hardworking men and women who
27. 1:16have made this country what it is in the
28. 1:18American labor movement that has fought
29. 1:20tirelessly to improve their wages
30. 1:22benefits and working conditions America
31. 1:25was built by its laborers but today our
32. 1:28workers are struggling just to get get
33. 1:30by in an economy that no longer works
34. 1:32for them that was candidate Barack Obama
35. 1:35a year ago this Labor Day weekend
36. 1:38President Obama and America are still
37. 1:40struggling with a US economy that may be
38. 1:42showing some signs of improving and
39. 1:45those that could vacation this holiday
40. 1:47are saying goodbye to Summer and getting
41. 1:49back to work Paul Cisco boa news