While the observation will outrage Democrats and Republicans alike, in terms of style, not politics, President-elect Donald ...

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the ...

President Joe Biden has designated a new national monument in Maine honoring the country's first female cabinet secretary ...

Far from the woods of Maine and the government buildings of Washington, Frances Perkins grew up at 18 Cottage St. in ...

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal.

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She served as secretary of labor for Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945 and spearheaded reforms like Social Security and ...

As labor secretary, Frances Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal and create safeguards in the national economy following the Great Depression.

President Biden's designation Monday of the Francis Perkins National Monument in Newcastle is expected to generate new ...