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Full title: BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Congress have already signed on to the legislation.

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[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Notice how these charts always manage to fit in tiny European populations but completely erase non-Western OECD members? Centering white, Western nations as the default standard for global progress while ignoring the rest of the world is structural racism disguised as economic research.

Here is a list of the countries that they left out with paid vacation laws: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Türkiye.

[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Lithuania mentioned!!!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But all of those are white western nations as well.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You consider Colombia, Chile, and Costa Rica to be Western White Nations?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Between a quick demographic look up and a map of the world I think so