
09/01/2025
“America cannot have a strong, growing economy without a strong, growing middle class and the chance for everybody, no matter how humble their beginnings, to join that middle class—a middle class built on the idea that if you work hard, if you live up to your responsibilities, you can get ahead, and enjoy some basic guarantees in life.” —Barack Obama
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, under President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland created the holiday during a ...