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Punching In: DOL Cutting Staff and Cake Within Frances Perkins
DOL employees balked at a celebration held amid staffing cuts and there’s uncertainty around the future of MSHA’s silica rule ...
Lawmakers, Workers Push Chavez-DeRemer to Stop Labor DOGE Cuts
Pressure is mounting on Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to reconsider proposed mass layoffs at the US Department of Labor ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette25d
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11
Who was Frances Perkins? A one-woman play looking at the life of the first woman Secretary of Labor is set to take the Ashfield Congregational Church stage in April. “Frances Perkins ...
Headliner at HistoryFest 2025 will feature Francis Perkins portrayal
WESTFIELD — Local historians, scholars and the public will gather Saturday at Westfield State University for HistoryFest Pioneer Valley 2025 to discuss everything from Daniel Shays’ Rebellion to poet ...
Democracy Now5d
“Co-Presidents” Trump and Musk Attack Social Security
The program was championed by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member in US history. The sweeping law provided not only Social Security’s pension for seniors ...
Amherst Bulletin15d
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11
Who was Frances Perkins? A one-woman play penned by a UMass academic exploring the life of the first female Secretary of Labor is set to take the Ashfield Congregational Church stage in April.
Athol Daily News25d
‘A woman who should be remembered’: New play about the life of Frances Perkins, the brains behind FDR’s New Deal, April 5 and 11
Who was Frances Perkins? A one-woman play looking at the life of the first woman Secretary of Labor is set to take the Ashfield Congregational Church stage in April. “Frances Perkins: A Woman’s Work” ...
Fox News16d
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are an unusual team. Has this ever happened at the White House?
Cabinet members like Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau complained about him as well, but Roosevelt defended Johnson, saying that "every administration needed ...
Times Union9d
Hyperbole engulfs the partisan spat over Social Security changes
Former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, a major Depression-era government official who spearheaded the creation of the Social Security program, told employees in a 1963 speech detailing the ...