President Biden designates new national monument at Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle
During her 12 years as Franklin D. Roosevelt's labor secretary, Perkins led the push to standardize the 40-hour work week, to ban child labor, to establish Social Security and to create a federal minimum wage.
Biden establishes a national monument in Maine for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary
President Biden today is designating the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark in Newcastle as the newest national monument, making it the country’s 433rd national park site. A proclamation will honor Frances Perkins’ as America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor.
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