Frances Perkins

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17 mentions 7 recordings first heard Dec 2024 last heard 7 Sep ↑12 vs the 6 months before

American labor leader who became the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet.

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Sam SederThe Majority Report with Sam Seder · Labor Day 2026 · 2:35 · 7 Sep
…his labor department, uh fr uh Francis Perkins uh was uh very important she was actually from Worcester.…
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David Conrad-PérezAmerican History Hit · The Fire That Changed New York · 14:56 · 20 Aug
…You have Frances Perkins, who, you know, famously was actually having tea at one of her friend's houses along Washington Square Park, had run over and she's a witness.…
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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · The Social Security Act · 6:34 · 15 Aug
…Perkins met FDR through her Tammany connections, and when he asked her to be a Secretary of Labor, she told him that she wanted the federal government to provide unemployment insurance, health insurance, and old age insurance.…
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Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · The Social Security Act · 6:04 · 15 Aug
…The overwhelming unemployment, hunger, and suffering during the Great Depression……
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · The Social Security Act · 5:52 · 15 Aug
…In that system, the voices of women like Perkins were……
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · The Social Security Act · 5:16 · 15 Aug
…The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire proved to Perkins that voluntary organizations……
Heather Cox RichardsonLetters from an American · The Social Security Act · 4:20 · 15 Aug
…After college, Perkins became a social worker, and in nineteen……
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