{"id":8351,"date":"2018-05-08T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:40:22","slug":"economics-professor-jeanne-boeh-discusses-vacation-day-usage-on-wcco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/08\/economics-professor-jeanne-boeh-discusses-vacation-day-usage-on-wcco\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics professor Jeanne Boeh discusses vacation day usage on WCCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8352\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-09-at-3.05.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8352 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-09-at-3.05.46-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Jeanne Boeh on WCCO\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-09-at-3.05.46-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-09-at-3.05.46-PM.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Boeh on WCCO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When WCCO reporter Christiane Cordero wanted to know why Americans are taking more vacation, she interviewed Augsburg economics professor Jeanne Boeh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unemployment rate is at a 17-year low&#8221; said Boeh, chair of Augsburg&#8217;s business administration department. &#8220;It\u2019s even lower in Minnesota. People are feeling more confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WCCO reported that a recent study\u00a0by the U.S. Travel Association found that the average number of vacation day usage among Americans has hit a seven-year high, at 17.2 days. Most days off are being used for chores.<\/p>\n<p>The study also found that 52 percent of Americans have vacation time left at the end the year. Why? \u201cSome of those are self-employed,\u201d Boeh told WCCO. \u201cThink about it. If you\u2019re just starting a business, if you go off for two weeks, you lose two weeks of income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch full video on <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2018\/05\/08\/us-travel-association-vacation-usage-study\/\">WCCO&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When WCCO reporter Christiane Cordero wanted to know why Americans are taking more vacation, she interviewed Augsburg economics professor Jeanne Boeh. &#8220;The unemployment rate is at a 17-year low&#8221; said Boeh, chair of Augsburg&#8217;s business administration department. &#8220;It\u2019s even lower in Minnesota. People are feeling more confident.\u201d WCCO reported that a recent study\u00a0by the U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}