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The growing number of unemployed citizens has led to the drastic decline of interest in going on holidays or vacation travels during Thanksgiving. This was revealed by AAA Carolinas.

AAA said that it estimated about 1,167,000 North Carolinians to travel more than fifty miles away from their homes this year which is just an increase of about 27,000.

AAA Carolinas spokesman Tom Crosby said that the figures last year were understandable because that’s where the economic slump started. However, the figures this year is still considered not back to normal as compared to the 2007 levels.

The reason behind this is the continuing increase in gas prices. This led people to just stay at home in the holidays rather than spend on gas for holiday travels.

Air travel has decreased by 7 percent this year due to gas prices as well.

A new fundraising program has been launched in a bid to help the troops from the Vermont National Guard to come home for the holidays and spend the much-needed quality time with the family before being deployed back to war-torn areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to reports, more than seven hundred soldiers will be training in Indiana by December and will be getting a week off for the holidays. However, they will need to pay for their travel expenses on their way back to their homes.

This prompted Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin and Brigadier General Jonathan Farnham to launch a fundraising effort to raise at least $315,000 through the Vermont National Guard Charitable Foundation to shoulder the charter flights back to Vermont for the soldiers.

Supporters are encouraged to visit the foundation’s official website for more information.

We thought this might be an informative post on the days in the year when the people from the USA take a holiday.

Like other countries around the world, the U.S. has its own set of holidays. Of course, each country has its own culture and culture allows people to celebrate holidays. Although holiday really means “holy day”, most of the holidays in the U.S. are not really religious. Instead, they are commemorative in origin and nature.

Because the U.S. is endowed with a rich and diverse ethnic heritage, it is still possible that some of the holidays celebrated in the U.S. can be traced from traditions and cultural sources. However, no matter where and how some of the American holidays started, holidays in the U.S. generally mean “celebration”! So to give you an idea on the American holiday celebrations, here are the 10 federal government-proclaimed holidays in the country:

Among the holidays mentioned, the most American is the Independence Day. This day is a big birthday party where all people in America are invited.