Neil M. Maher is a professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement.
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.