Planning (or not) for a summer vacation

With summer having officially started (happy solstice!), Americans’ thoughts naturally turn to summer vacation. But thinking is as much as many folks will do about it. In an ABC News/Washington Post survey fielded earlier this month and released this week, just 53 percent of adults said they’ll take a summer vacation (the link goes to a PDF file). Men were more likely than women to say they’ll do so (58 percent vs. 48 percent). The total is dragged down a bit by old folks, whose lives of leisure leave them feeling less in need of a summer break.