Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and was a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...

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The Civil Works Program was only approved for four months, and Roosevelt chose not to extend it. He feared that it and other New Deal programs would push the nation too deeply in debt. But it was ...

After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

Roosevelt's New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that ...

The New Deal war on crime created a coercive apparatus that Roosevelt used throughout World ... GOODMAN is a senior fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics ...

One of North Carolina’s most picturesque roads has officially etched its name in history. The Blue Ridge Parkway, a route in ...

Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...

The eponym of the Labor Department’s headquarters, she played a pivotal role in developing and implementing Roosevelt’s sweeping New Deal programs, most notable Social Security. During Perkins ...

President Joe Biden has established a national monument in Newcastle, Maine, to Frances Perkins, the first woman member of a ...