Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. waves to the crowd at 1963's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Photo: Francis Miller / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images
42% of employers will close in the United States in observance of Martin Luther King Day, making the holiday slightly more popular than February's Presidents Day, per Bloomberg. But there's a huge difference in who gets the day off: 72% of civil and nonprofit workers could sleep in this morning while just 16% of manufacturing workers could do the same.
Why it matters: MLK Day's jump over Presidents Day comes at a fraught political time for issues relating to race, given the violence surrounding last summer's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville and the Trump administration's attempts to clamp down on immigration.