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America: The "No-Vacation Nation"?

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One in four Americans gets no paid time off.

Research shows that using your vacation time can have some major benefits. For one, it’s better for productivity, and -- as one study shows -- it can even be better for your health. But are Americans taking enough time off, or are we really a "no-vacation nation"? 

This hour, a look at America’s struggle with ‘vacation-deficit disorder’.

This episode originally aired on August 22, 2014.

GUESTS:

  • Joe Robinson - Stress management, productivity trainer, and speaker at Optimal Performance Strategies
  • John de Graaf - Executive Director of Take Back Your Time
  • Terry Hartig - Professor of Environmental Psychology at Uppsala University
  • Taylor Cole, APR - Director of PR and social media for Hotels.com

This show originally aired on August 22, 2014.

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Catie Talarski was a senior director of storytelling and radio programming at Connecticut Public.

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SOMOS CONNECTICUT es una iniciativa de Connecticut Public, la emisora local de NPR y PBS del estado, que busca elevar nuestras historias latinas y expandir programación que alza y informa nuestras comunidades latinas locales. Visita CTPublic.org/latino para más reportajes y recursos. Para noticias, suscríbase a nuestro boletín informativo en ctpublic.org/newsletters.

Federal funding is gone.

Congress has eliminated all funding for public media.

That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone.

The future of public media is in your hands.

All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment you consider starting a monthly gift as a Sustainer to help replace what’s been lost.