In Illinois, state workers get a paid holiday for Juneteenth only if it falls on a weekday. New Mexico’s Legislature added Juneteenth as an official state holiday in 2006, observed on the third Saturday of June it became a paid holiday for state workers for the first time in 2022. We supplemented those lists with an analysis of news reports about local observances of Juneteenth and, where relevant, state legislation. Our main sources for this analysis were state administrative, personnel and human resources websites, most of which post lists of official state holidays. We focused on states that observe Juneteenth as an official public holiday – meaning state offices are closed and state workers get a paid day off. Pew Research Center took a look at how each state commemorates the day. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday in the United States, and one that is celebrated differently across the states.
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