Juneteenth is more than a day off for many people. Can Wisconsin businesses do more?

As an employee of a bank, Camille Parham gets just about every federal holiday off, including the nation’s newly minted Juneteenth holiday.

“It’s overdue,” the 41-year-old Milwaukee resident said. “It’s an Independence Day for us.”

Parham is glad her company quickly embraced the holiday, though she never thought Juneteenth would be declared a federal holiday...
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