No-Vacation Nation: Americans Don't Use Their Vacation Days

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 5, 2019

Even Americans who get paid time off from their jobs generally don’t take all of it. A record 768 million US vacation days were wasted in 2018 says the U.S. Travel Association.

Listeners call in and explain why they didn't use their vacation days this year, and where they would go if they could. 

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